#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...
know. I know. they are limited, have different needs and concerns. but I watch and learn from them.
I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
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)