She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather

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

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...