as the spirit wanes the form

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land