#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...
Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy