#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch just a little Enough to kill a horse in the stre… But there aren’t any horses in the… Enough to knock the flowers from a…
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
I see old people on pensions in th… supermarkets and they are thin and… proud and they are dying they are starving on their feet an… nothing. long ago, among other lie…
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,