had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

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

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead