#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
“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...
Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.