#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
