#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch just a little Enough to kill a horse in the stre… But there aren’t any horses in the… Enough to knock the flowers from a…
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
“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.
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.