What is included with this book?
So you want to be a writer? | p. 3 |
My secret life | p. 6 |
The column | p. 16 |
Commerce | p. 18 |
The Mexican fighters | p. 22 |
This dog | p. 25 |
The great escape | p. 28 |
A quick one | p. 30 |
The old anarchist | p. 32 |
And I still won't vote | p. 33 |
Just trying to do a good deed | p. 35 |
One step removed | p. 38 |
My life as a sitcom | p. 39 |
A mechanical Lazarus | p. 41 |
My god | p. 45 |
After the sandstorm | p. 46 |
Carry on! | p. 48 |
Straw hats | p. 53 |
Drink and wait | p. 56 |
Basking in the evil light | p. 57 |
What can I do? | p. 63 |
Out of the sickroom and into the white blazing sun | p. 64 |
Temporal ease | p. 66 |
You never liked me | p. 68 |
Our big day at the movies | p. 71 |
About competition | p. 75 |
Fingernails | p. 76 |
Iron | p. 80 |
Extraterrestrial visitor | p. 85 |
Small talk | p. 86 |
Too sweet | p. 89 |
Work-fuck problems | p. 91 |
Observations on music | p. 94 |
Fly boy | p. 96 |
Unblinking grief | p. 101 |
Houses and dark streets | p. 102 |
The joke is on the sun | p. 105 |
Like a polluted river flowing | p. 109 |
Girlfriends | p. 111 |
Escape 1942 | p. 113 |
A strange horse poem | p. 115 |
The longest snake in the world | p. 119 |
The niceties | p. 124 |
Time to water the plants and feed the cat | p. 127 |
I'm flattered | p. 129 |
Neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane | p. 132 |
Show business | p. 135 |
Pop! | p. 137 |
The interview | p. 138 |
Re-union | p. 140 |
Genius unfettered | p. 141 |
Bob | p. 145 |
Bearclaw morning | p. 147 |
Death and transfiguration | p. 152 |
Warriors in this place | p. 153 |
A sickness? | p. 155 |
A fine night | p. 162 |
Riots | p. 165 |
Venice Beach | p. 166 |
The con job | p. 167 |
Looking back | p. 169 |
The love poems of Catullus | p. 177 |
Dream girl | p. 179 |
Empties | p. 181 |
The landlady | p. 186 |
About the mail | p. 188 |
Have you ever pulled a lion's tail? | p. 191 |
Who needs it? | p. 193 |
Tight black pants | p. 194 |
The weirdest day | p. 195 |
Burning bright | p. 201 |
The death of a hero | p. 202 |
Hooked | p. 204 |
Found poems | p. 206 |
Runaway inflation | p. 208 |
The significance was obscure | p. 210 |
Cracking the odds | p. 211 |
Working through it all | p. 216 |
Giving thanks | p. 217 |
Los Angeles | p. 224 |
2,294 | p. 225 |
Why do you write so many poems about death? | p. 226 |
Evidence | p. 228 |
A wise ass | p. 231 |
The dressmaker | p. 234 |
Lunch in Beverly Hills | p. 237 |
She was really mad | p. 239 |
A tree, a road, a toad | p. 240 |
In one ear and out the other | p. 242 |
Excuses | p. 244 |
Bygone days | p. 245 |
In a lady's bedroom | p. 248 |
Model friend | p. 250 |
The invitation | p. 257 |
Hollywood hustle | p. 258 |
Buddha Chinaski says | p. 259 |
Like Lazarus | p. 262 |
Soft and fat like summer roses | p. 269 |
In transit | p. 271 |
"Dear Mr. Chinaski" | p. 274 |
Silverfish | p. 275 |
The popularity kid | p. 277 |
Death and white glue | p. 280 |
Fun times: 1930 | p. 282 |
My bully | p. 284 |
Ow ow ow | p. 288 |
The singers | p. 290 |
The march | p. 292 |
The way things are | p. 295 |
Words for you | p. 296 |
Strictly bullshit | p. 298 |
Written before I got one | p. 300 |
Straight on | p. 302 |
Remember this | p. 304 |
Now see here | p. 306 |
Little poem | p. 308 |
Gertrude up the stairway, 1943 | p. 311 |
Where was I? | p. 313 |
Sloppy day | p. 317 |
Note on the telephone | p. 325 |
At the edge | p. 328 |
Heads without faces, seen in all the places | p. 330 |
Coming awake | p. 332 |
The simple truth | p. 334 |
Here and now | p. 336 |
Crazy world | p. 341 |
Good stuff | p. 342 |
Respite | p. 346 |
The horse player | p. 348 |
Displaced | p. 350 |
In search of a hero | p. 352 |
Escapade | p. 358 |
Burning, burning | p. 359 |
Upon reading an interview with a best-selling novelist | p. 361 |
Nothing to it | p. 362 |
This place | p. 364 |
A.D. 701-762 | p. 366 |
Regrets of a sort | p. 368 |
Too young | p. 371 |
Listening to the radio at 1:35 a.m | p. 373 |
Unclassical symphony | p. 374 |
Dinner for free | p. 375 |
A song from the 70's | p. 379 |
.188 | p. 380 |
War some of the time | p. 382 |
At last | p. 383 |
Misbegotten paradise | p. 386 |
My big night on the town | p. 390 |
Nobody but you | p. 393 |
Like a dolphin | p. 395 |
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