#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...
The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...