you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

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

my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

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