I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

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 rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

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

I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...