#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
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,
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...