#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
liked D . H. Lawrence he could get so indignant he snapped and he ripped with wonderfully energetic sentenc… he could lay the word down
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 j… female. brown paper bags filled with trash… everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts