#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry