I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

as the spirit wanes the form

Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

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

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my