#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
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
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...