she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

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...

3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!

the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

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…

A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.

are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties… so you can finger-fuck me in the

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs