#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.