#AmericanWriters
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
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
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...
boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…
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
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
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
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the