#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off