R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

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

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

shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

the balance is preserved by the sn… the Santa Monica cliffs; the luck is in walking down Wester… and having the girls in a massage parlor holler at you, “Hello, Swe…

The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.

I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...

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

I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but