#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
