#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...