#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
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.
once we were young at this machine. . . drinking
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
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
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,