my goldfish stares with watery eye… into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

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...

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

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

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow