#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses