all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

It was another Sunday that we got into… “He has no ambition,” said my father. “… “I wish he wouldn’t chew tobacco,” said… “If this country was full of men like hi… over and we’d he running the laundries .…

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

I phoned her. It was 1 am. I went over. Tammie lived in a small bungalow behind… She let me in. “Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my… old and she’s asleep in the bedroom.”

they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hood and… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

watch them push the crippled and the inf… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the long bus where each chair is locked down

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

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

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

Back in L.A., there was almost a week o… rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan B… “Chinaski, I want you to read a week fr… Rock groups played there. It was a diff… “Chinaski,” Marty said, "you think you…