#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
#1982 #HamOnRye
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
#1971 #PostOffice
When I awakened a few hours later, Tany… “Jesus, you start early.” “I always wake up at 6 am and I get up.… “I always get up at noon. We’re going t… Tanya hit the whiskey and I went back t…
#1978 #Women
he has on blue jeans and tennis shoes and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a bush you crushed the whole bush,
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
she only fucks the ones she doesn’t want to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones she wan…
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the day. he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
That evening I started drinking. It was… I’ve got to get back to the typewriter,… At 2:10 am the phone rang. I was drinki… “Hello.” It was a woman’s voice, a youn… “Are you Henry Chinaski?” “Yes.”
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
