#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...