the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

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

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

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…