#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…