#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...
death wants more death, and its we… I remember my father’s garage, how… I would brush the corpses of flies from the windows they thought were… their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old
red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
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...
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets