#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault 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?”
probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
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...
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake