#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear
she’s up seeing my doctor trying to get some diet pills; she’s not fat, she needs the speed… I go down to the nearest bar and w… at 3:30 in the afternoon of a tues…
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...
she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished
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 next time you listen to Borod… remember he was just a chemist who wrote music to relax; his house was jammed with peor e: students, artists, drunkards, bur…
Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off