#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
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.
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
death wants more death, and its we… I remember my father’s garage, how… I would brush the corpses of flies from the windows they thought were… their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you