#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Stickpin?… “What did he do when you told him you we… “We were sitting across from each other… “What happened?”
#1971 #PostOffice
we fought for 17 days inside that tent thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
So I was surprised when the phone rang… “Just sitting around. ...” “Why don’t you come over?” “I’d like to. ...” She gave me the address, it was either…
#1978 #Women
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body el… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
#1982 #HamOnRye
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
very tall girl lifts her nose at me outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
They had me in the counselor’s office in… “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He… “Ow! You look bad. I better take a pill… Sure enough, he opened a bottle and took… “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to…
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment house. there must be people in there even love in there
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train