#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe
the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
she reads to me from the New York… which I don’t buy, don’t know how they get in here, but it’s something about the Mafia one of the heads of the Mafia
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…