#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
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…
Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…