#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen
Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose