My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and

having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

he buys 5 cars a month, details th… them out, then resells them at a profit of one or… he has a nice Jewish wife and he t… bangs her until the walls shake.

I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

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...