Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead

my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow

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.

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?

Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...