red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

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...

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care