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

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.

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…

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

murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...