They had this thing called Training Cla… A big Italiano got up on the lecture pl… “. . . now there’s nothing like the smel… Good god, I thought, am I hearing right… “. . . so take a bath everyday. You will…

am sitting on a tin chair outside the x-… death, on stinking wings, wafts through… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches from when was a boy and when I was a man and now

They had me in the counselor’s office in… “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He… “Ow! You look bad. I better take a pill… Sure enough, he opened a bottle and took… “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to…

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hands steps out in front of my car

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

long ago he edited a little magazine was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jazz expe… and I remember him because he never retu…

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at the loca… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s. Buffy has boy twins, father in doubt, an… in a $150-a-month apt.

boy, don’t come around here telling me y… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and inside, tha… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but they w…

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you