#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar
boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…