#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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
I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
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…
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that