#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
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 ...
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but