#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…
We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
strange warmth, hot and cold femal… I make good love, but love isn’t j… sex. most females I’ve known are ambitious, and I like to lie aroun… on large comfortable pillows at 3…