Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...

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

Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,

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,

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...

crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…

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

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.