#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #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 haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
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 centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...
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…
you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar