#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
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...
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair