#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked and… the way she told him things that s… but were not, and he knew the colo…
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…