#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
In the morning I heard her walkin… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sic… She shook me. “Listen, I want you… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…
call it the greenhouse effect or w… but it just doesn’t rain like it u… I particularly remember the rains… depression era. there wasn’t any money but there w…
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
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,
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage