these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;

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...

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...