#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...
