#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
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.
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
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…
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...