#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...
O lord, he said, Japanese women, real women, they have not forgotte… bowing and smiling closing the wounds men have made; but American women will kill you l…
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.
I am a panther shut up and bellowi… cement walls, and I am angry at bl… evenings without ventilation and I am angry with you, and it wi… like a rose
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
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...
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake