#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...
probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…