#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
In the morning I heard her walkin… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sic… She shook me. “Listen, I want you… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...