#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
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
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
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
Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
The next time you listen to Borod… remember he was just a chemist who wrote music to relax; his house was jammed with peor e: students, artists, drunkards, bur…
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others