#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
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...
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.