#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips