#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe
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…
Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.
