#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...