the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

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. ...

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

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 paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…