#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to
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...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.
at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited
We drank all day and that night I tried again to make love to Mindy. I was astounded and dismayed to find she had a large pussy. An extra large pussy. I hadn’t noticed it the night befo...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.