#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
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
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
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,...
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted