#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...
the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
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—
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack program… in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into