#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,
The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break