#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
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…
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
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.
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…