#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?