#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
now more and more all these people running around wearing the American Flag Shirt and it was more or less once assum… think but I’m not sure)
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti