#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
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 back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you