#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)