had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”

“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

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

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...