#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end o… of wine, I have typed from a dozen… poesy an old man maddened for the flesh of young gi…
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but
Lydia met me at the airport. She was horny as usual. “Jesus Christ,” she said. “I’m hot! I play with myself but it doesn’t do any good.” “Lydia, my leg is still in terrible shape. I jus...
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...