#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
he buys 5 cars a month, details th… them out, then resells them at a profit of one or… he has a nice Jewish wife and he t… bangs her until the walls shake.
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...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.