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...

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

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...