#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
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...
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”