#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
We drank all day and that night I tried again to make love to Mindy. I was astounded and dismayed to find she had a large pussy. An extra large pussy. I hadn’t noticed it the night befo...
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...