the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves

here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels

Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...

Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...

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

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark