#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and pe… and she’ll wash me first spread the soap over my balls
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
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…
I began getting dizzy spells. I could feel them coming. The case would begin to whirl. The spells lasted about a minute. I couldn’t understand it. Each letter was getting heavier and he...
That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every