#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
sometimes you climb out of bed in… I’m not going to make it, but you… remembering all the times you’ve f… you walk to the bathroom, do your… in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my,…
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
she reads to me from the New York… which I don’t buy, don’t know how they get in here, but it’s something about the Mafia one of the heads of the Mafia
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...