#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of