#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…