#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
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.
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
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…
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves