I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…

The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...

I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...

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

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

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.