#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that