#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
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 ...
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
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...
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…