she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

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,...

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

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...

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while