I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

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

Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...

Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...

he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.