#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
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.
you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,