#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
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...
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
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
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
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;