#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage