#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
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,
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
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...
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...