#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
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…
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…