#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street