#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street
I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...
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she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
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,…
see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .