#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
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,
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
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...