#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
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…