#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
as the spirit wanes the form
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—