outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the Russia… Orthodox to the west.

An old man asked me for a cigarette and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

We ran up the long ramp. I was carrying… At the escalator Tammie saw the flight… “Please,” I said, “we only have five mi… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

as I go to the escalator young fellow and a lovely young girl are ahead of me. her pants, her blouse are skintight. as we ascend

I was the last one off the plane and the… “My god!” she laughed. “You look awful!… “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while… We walked into the bar and sat down. “You’ll never make Paris this way.”

Her father really hated me. He thought… The only time I ever saw him was when h… I peered at him from under the edge of t… He ran out of the house growling and cur… If I could be removed, he’d certainly s…

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

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