#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car
death wants more death, and its we… I remember my father’s garage, how… I would brush the corpses of flies from the windows they thought were… their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion
Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy