light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

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

I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer

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...

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...

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

she only fucks the ones she doesn’… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy