An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...

I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

the balance is preserved by the sn… the Santa Monica cliffs; the luck is in walking down Wester… and having the girls in a massage parlor holler at you, “Hello, Swe…

she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

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 awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a