#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...
I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…