#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...