the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?

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...

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

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...