#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
as the spirit wanes the form
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…
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
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were