They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...

We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...

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

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...

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...

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate

The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...

It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...