#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades
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 blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...