#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...
my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...