#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
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
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...