#AmericanWriters
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...
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...
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
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...
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car