I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

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

after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not

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—

I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

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,

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

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...

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