#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms
I had just won $115 from the heads… was naked upon my bed listening to an opera by one of th… and had just gotten rid of a very… when there was a knock upon the wo…
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
In the morning I heard her walkin… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sic… She shook me. “Listen, I want you… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
