#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores