not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus

I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades

the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

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…

I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard a long high scream and a quite attractive

In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”

he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of

I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…

having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.

my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…

Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and

waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…

some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and