#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
sometimes you climb out of bed in… I’m not going to make it, but you… remembering all the times you’ve f… you walk to the bathroom, do your… in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my,…
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
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...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with