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

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

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

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...

you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.

There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...