#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
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...