#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
majestic, majic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table