#AmericanWriters
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.
Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...