#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!
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...
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,
I am a panther shut up and bellowi… cement walls, and I am angry at bl… evenings without ventilation and I am angry with you, and it wi… like a rose
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
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
at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say