#Americans #XXCentury
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
they found him walking along the f… all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut off his sexual
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it