#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives