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....

By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

I saw Bobby out front the next day when I went to buy a newspaper. “Louie phoned,” he said, “he told me what happened to him.” “He ran outside to vomit and Tammie grabbed his cock while...

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

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business