#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
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.
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked and… the way she told him things that s… but were not, and he knew the colo…
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
“she shoots up in the neck,” she t… me. I told her to stick it into my ass and she tried and said, “oh oh… and I said, “what the hell’s the m… she said, “nothing, this is New Y…
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
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
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…