#1973 #AmericanWriters #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...