#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker