#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
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...