#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
as the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of…
listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch o… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then… will climb up on top of the others
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...
#1978 #Women
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
#1971 #PostOffice
the elephants are caked with mud and tir… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
he sat naked and drunk in a room of summ… night, running the blade of the knife under his fingernails, smiling, thinking of all the letters he had received telling him that
The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
she cut my toenails the night before, and in the morning she said, “I think I… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to work. she was at my apartment—which meant anot…
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
#1982 #HamOnRye
We continued drinking. Cecelia had just… “I want to go out and look at the moon a… “All right, Cecelia.” She went outside by the swimming pool an… “No wonder Bill died,” I said. “He sta…
in the slow Mexican air I watched the b… and they cut off his ear, and his great… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopped at… and watched the golden red and blue flow…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
