#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
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...
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”
I read that he lost a suitcase ful… train and that they never were rec… I can’t match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3—pa… upon this computer
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb