#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
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…
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
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.
my goldfish stares with watery eye… into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang