#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…