#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
the shit shits yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma…
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
the sch oolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
the plea sures 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 comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...