#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car
Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.