#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
death wants more death, and its we… I remember my father’s garage, how… I would brush the corpses of flies from the windows they thought were… their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer