#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.
see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.
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...
listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…