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

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

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

I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

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...

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...

I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.