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

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...