#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
as the spirit wanes the form
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
I began getting dizzy spells. I could feel them coming. The case would begin to whirl. The spells lasted about a minute. I couldn’t understand it. Each letter was getting heavier and he...
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar
well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.