#AmericanWriters
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
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 illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”