#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...
When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;