#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...
call it the greenhouse effect or w… but it just doesn’t rain like it u… I particularly remember the rains… depression era. there wasn’t any money but there w…
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…
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...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry