re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and

first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

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

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,

he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…