#Americans #XXCentury
Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...
I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...
Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
