One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

there’s Barry in his ripped walking shor… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

But the next morning it was the same thi… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing for you… It went on for a week. I sat there each… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the older sub… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing his ass.…

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was that in some of the rooms

I was sitting next to a young girl who d… “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she aske… The supervisor was talking to her. “You say you’re from Kansas City? Both… “Is that so?” said the girl.

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

The voices of the people were the same,… “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the… “Mailman! Mailman! This doesn’t go here… The streets were full of insane and dull… I asked some of the others who had carri…

It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...

you with long hair, legs crossed high, s… the bar, you like a butcher knife agains… as the nightingale sings elsewhere while… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as

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

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