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 ...

I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...