#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…
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…
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the