#AmericanWriters
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...