#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
my friend William is a fortunate m… he lacks the imagination to suffer he kept his first job his first wife can drive a car 50,000 miles
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
as the poems go into the thousands… realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sun… the traffic, the nights and the da…
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...