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...

On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...

We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...

R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...

they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...

cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

There was a gang of us down there. 150 o… After swearing us in, the guy told us: “All right now, you’ve got a good job.… Security? You could get security in jai… Nearly 12 years later, out of these 150…

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notic… that?