#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt
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
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...