#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...