#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,