#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
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
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
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.