#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
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...