#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...
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...
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…