#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...
The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...