#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there
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...
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.