#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
since my last name was Fuch, he sa… believe the school yard was tough:… powder down my neck, threw gravel… with rubber bands in class, and ou… me names, well, one name mainly, o…
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
