#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and