#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...
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,
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...