We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...

you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…

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...

she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

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

the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to

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

over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,