#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
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…
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 Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,