#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the
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 ...
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...