#1973 #AmericanWriters #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
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
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch just a little Enough to kill a horse in the stre… But there aren’t any horses in the… Enough to knock the flowers from a…
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,