I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...

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

believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…

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…

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3