the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

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

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...