#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...