#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion