think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

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,

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

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...

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

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…

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going t… to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen… body. But nobody would notice that. I h… but nobody would see that. I here was nothing to do and I didn’t h…

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...