the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

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

Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

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…

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

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.

We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...

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

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and