#Americans #XXCentury
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked and… the way she told him things that s… but were not, and he knew the colo…
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
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...