#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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.
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
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...
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...
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”