the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...

you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...

In the morning I heard her walkin… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sic… She shook me. “Listen, I want you… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...

I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

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