once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…

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

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

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

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...