#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...