#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
I am watching a girl dressed in a light green sweater, blue shorts,… there is a necklace of some sort but her breasts are small, poor th… and she watches her nails
I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land