#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
