#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
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,
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…
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,
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
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?”