the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the loade… tray

remember, he told me, that when I was 6… years old my mother was always taking me to the doctor and saying, “he hasn’t poo… she was always asking me, “have you pooped?”

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,

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment house. there must be people in there even love in there

you with long hair, legs crossed high, s… the bar, you like a butcher knife agains… as the nightingale sings elsewhere while… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as

shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

That evening I started drinking. It was… I’ve got to get back to the typewriter,… At 2:10 am the phone rang. I was drinki… “Hello.” It was a woman’s voice, a youn… “Are you Henry Chinaski?” “Yes.”

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

of course, I may die in the next ten min… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about is that my editor—publisher might retire even though he is ten years younger than