#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed