#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow
“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
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?
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
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...
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed