#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
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
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown