#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going to the beach with him. He wanted to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen wearing swimming trunks because my hack was covered with boils and scars....
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
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;
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
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.
this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen