#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine