#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
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
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.