#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
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…
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3