#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
no way back to Barcelona. the green soldiers have invaded th… madmen rule Spain and during a heat wave in 1952 I b… no way back to the Rock of Gibral…
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
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.
At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
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 canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case