you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...

my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?

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...

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...