she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

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

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…

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow

One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....

don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide

A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt