if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…

sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?

They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...

the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever

A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark

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

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels