#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,
But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
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...
