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like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn
all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...