#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
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...
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone
as the poems go into the thousands… realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sun… the traffic, the nights and the da…
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.