these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

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

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal