#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
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,
first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.
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...
I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
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
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark