16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

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,

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…