#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
great writer remains in bed shades down doesn’t want to see anyone doesn’t want to write anymore doesn’t want to try anymore;
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
know. I know. they are limited, have different needs and concerns. but I watch and learn from them.