#AmericanWriters
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
she only fucks the ones she doesn’… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin: don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,