I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear

he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these