#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…