the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...

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

Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...

she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...

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

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...

In the morning I heard her walkin… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sic… She shook me. “Listen, I want you… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...

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