I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...

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

It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up

Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...

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…