#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
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
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…