#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
To pacify Lydia I agreed to go to Muleshead, Utah. Her sister was camping in the mountains. The sisters actually owned much of the land. It had been inherited from their father. Glendol...
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…