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Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
the old fart, he used his literary… to reel them in one at a time, each younger than the last. he liked to meet them for luncheon… wine
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
when God created love he didn’t he… when God created dogs He didn’t h… when God created plants that was a… when God created hate we had a sta… when God created me He created me
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...