the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

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...

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...