#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
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...
There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
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…
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and