eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business

you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,

I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...

I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead

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

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.