#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
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…
But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…
the sun slides down through the sh… have a pair of black shoes and a p… brown shoes. can hardly remember the girls of m… there is numb blood pulsing throug…
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now