#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
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…
Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now