have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.

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—

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that

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