#Americans #XXCentury
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...
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
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 was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...