The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

you go for these wenches, she said, you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore, I said,

schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun

We continued drinking. Cecelia had just… “I want to go out and look at the moon a… “All right, Cecelia.” She went outside by the swimming pool an… “No wonder Bill died,” I said. “He sta…

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...

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody be… “Who is it?” “It’s a redheaded floozie.” I let Tammie in. She sat down and I op… “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two…

The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...

since my last name was Fuch, he said to… believe the school yard was tough: they… powder down my neck, threw gravel at me,… with rubber bands in class, and outside… me names, well, one name mainly, over an…

Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenev… “You’re a whore.” “Yeah? Well, if there’s anything worse… “If there’s anything worse than a bore i… “If you don’t want my pussy,” she said,…

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the church… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monetary sy…

the telephone has not been kind of late, of late there have been more and more ca… from people who want to come over and ta… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

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...