#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…