let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 j… female. brown paper bags filled with trash… everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.
you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”
bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
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…
watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes de cades to realize this and most often
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.
as I go to the escalator young fellow and a lovely young gi… are ahead of me. her pants, her blouse are skintigh… as we ascend
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…
was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
now more and more all these people running around wearing the American Flag Shirt and it was more or less once assum… think but I’m not sure)
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
great writer remains in bed shades down doesn’t want to see anyone doesn’t want to write anymore doesn’t want to try anymore;
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
