#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
“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...
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink,
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
reached up into the top of the clo… and took out a pair of blue pan ti… and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?” and she looked and said,