naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...

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

I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...

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

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

Again I was on a new route. The Stone always put me on hard routes, but now and then, due to the circumstances of things, he was forced to place me on one less murderous. Route 511 was ...

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain