sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

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, ...

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

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

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

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

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...

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