#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin: don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.
We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
do not b other the beagle lying th… away from grass and flowers and pa… dreaming dogdreams, or perhaps dre… nothing, as men do awake; yes, leave him be, in that simple…
When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...