#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
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?
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.
I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal
as I go to the escalator young fellow and a lovely young gi… are ahead of me. her pants, her blouse are skintigh… as we ascend
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...