#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...
in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now