#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....