Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

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

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the

here I am in the ground my mouth open and