#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
she reads to me from the New York… which I don’t buy, don’t know how they get in here, but it’s something about the Mafia one of the heads of the Mafia
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…