#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young