#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,