#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
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…
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
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
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current