#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
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...
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
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...
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
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
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,