#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
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,
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
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...
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land