#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.