#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...
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…
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while