#Americans #XXCentury
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets