#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
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…
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
she’s up seeing my doctor trying to get some diet pills; she’s not fat, she needs the speed… I go down to the nearest bar and w… at 3:30 in the afternoon of a tues…
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...