#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
I see old people on pensions in th… supermarkets and they are thin and… proud and they are dying they are starving on their feet an… nothing. long ago, among other lie…
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 j… female. brown paper bags filled with trash… everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
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…
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...