#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
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
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated