I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves

I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....

the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

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

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me