#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
“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…
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets