#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the
I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
“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.
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and