Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

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…

are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties… so you can finger-fuck me in the

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...

I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head

was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

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...

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you