#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
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
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
The ex-Japanese wrestler who was into real estate sold Lydia’s house. She had to move out. There was Lydia, Tonto, Lisa and the dog, Bugbutt. In Los Angeles most landlords hang out the ...
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
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...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...