#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…
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.