#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
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...
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
