I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...

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

what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead

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

She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...

The ex-Japanese wrestler who was into real estate sold Lydia’s house. She had to move out. There was Lydia, Tonto, Lisa and the dog, Bugbutt. In Los Angeles most landlords hang out the ...

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

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…

watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to