#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...
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...
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands