#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...
Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…