#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
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...
he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.
blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
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…
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...