#1973 #AmericanWriters #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
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