#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide
you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
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…
I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over
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…
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)