#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
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;
It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...