#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
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...
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands