That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...

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

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and

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…

Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

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