#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
liked D . H. Lawrence he could get so indignant he snapped and he ripped with wonderfully energetic sentenc… he could lay the word down
The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
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