he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

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

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man

one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

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...