#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
reached up into the top of the clo… and took out a pair of blue pan ti… and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?” and she looked and said,
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
I read that he lost a suitcase ful… train and that they never were rec… I can’t match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3—pa… upon this computer
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—