#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the
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...
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
I had just won $115 from the heads… was naked upon my bed listening to an opera by one of th… and had just gotten rid of a very… when there was a knock upon the wo…
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”