#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse