#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
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...
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
Again I was on a new route. The Stone always put me on hard routes, but now and then, due to the circumstances of things, he was forced to place me on one less murderous. Route 511 was ...
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
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.
I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every