#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...
the balance is preserved by the sn… the Santa Monica cliffs; the luck is in walking down Wester… and having the girls in a massage parlor holler at you, “Hello, Swe…
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
In the morning Dee Dee drove me to the Sunset Strip for breakfast. The Mercedes was black and shone in the sun. We drove past the billboards and the nightclubs and the fancy restaurants...