the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head

I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.

After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...

the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?

all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...