#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
#1978 #Women
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
my goldfish stares with watery eyes into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us. The… “How you doing on your scheme, Chinaski… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.K., br… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothered wi…
#1971 #PostOffice
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...
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Str… I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the window while it was playing, and, of course, it would break the glass in the window
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class and you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal fight with the guy with the dirty yellow
washed—up, on shore, the old yellow note… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.