#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...
drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
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…
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to 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...
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every