#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
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…
know. I know. they are limited, have different needs and concerns. but I watch and learn from them.
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...