#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
I read that he lost a suitcase ful… train and that they never were rec… I can’t match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3—pa… upon this computer
I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
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.