#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
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…
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...