#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
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,