The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

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

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

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

I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man