#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh