#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...
The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...