#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...