#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades
Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.