That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

This is advance notice that it is proposed to remove you from the Postal Service or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed action is...

I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.