#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...
believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...