#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...