first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...

dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.

I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,

I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....