#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
“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...
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…