#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees