#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited
I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
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 old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…