#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and pe… and she’ll wash me first spread the soap over my balls
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
I see old people on pensions in th… supermarkets and they are thin and… proud and they are dying they are starving on their feet an… nothing. long ago, among other lie…
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...