Chinaski puts $50 on Flying Ace

Chinaski knew that is was

All beer and whores and

Idiots and the raceway while

Playing odds all day.

1:1 Getting paid

(Remember ratios are

Recurrently changing)

1:2 Getting laid

1:3 Smoke and fade

1:1,000,000 ways to die

I drink beer at his gravesite

Which quotes "Don't try"

You either let it go or catch

The goddamn fly.

He never puffed grass

Only got hammered off his ass,

Lit cigarettes and hated the living

Dead huddled in mass...

He was piss drunk at a

Typewriter wording the

Very scene I'm living in,

A studio apartment with the

Pisser down the hall.

"They've done it all"

Is what he told me not

To think.

Write.

Just drink.

Fuck.

Just drink.

Go outside.

Just drink and

Play the odds.