#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
The next time you listen to Borod… remember he was just a chemist who wrote music to relax; his house was jammed with peor e: students, artists, drunkards, bur…
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—
bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…