#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...
as the spirit wanes the form
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.