#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
know. I know. they are limited, have different needs and concerns. but I watch and learn from them.
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…