#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below