#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car
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—
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
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...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…