#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
my goldfish stares with watery eye… into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the