#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
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 got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...