Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...

you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

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

live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...