#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...
Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...
I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.