#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their