Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....

is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,

I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…