#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...
are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties… so you can finger-fuck me in the
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their