awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air