#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
as the poems go into the thousands… realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sun… the traffic, the nights and the da…
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...