one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—

I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...

Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...

Office of Postmaster—United States Post Office—January 1, 1970 The attention of all employees is directed to the Code of Ethics for postal employees as set forth in Part 742 of the Post...

We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

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

at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish