drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

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...

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

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

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

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;

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall

had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head