I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,

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

The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…

Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.