#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
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...
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
he buys 5 cars a month, details th… them out, then resells them at a profit of one or… he has a nice Jewish wife and he t… bangs her until the walls shake.