Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way Book

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