That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...

Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

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

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

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