you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not

I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty

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