#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and
I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—
majestic, majic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—