#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
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
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed