#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
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...
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
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...
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
the othe r day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
one of t he terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
you con sult psychiatrists and phi… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
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.
the sch oolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain