#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
The ex-Japanese wrestler who was into real estate sold Lydia’s house. She had to move out. There was Lydia, Tonto, Lisa and the dog, Bugbutt. In Los Angeles most landlords hang out the ...
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus