ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

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

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...

I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...

By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

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