#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
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 ...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide