#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked and… the way she told him things that s… but were not, and he knew the colo…
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated