#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
the sun slides down through the sh… have a pair of black shoes and a p… brown shoes. can hardly remember the girls of m… there is numb blood pulsing throug…
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
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
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their