#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”
I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land
To pacify Lydia I agreed to go to Muleshead, Utah. Her sister was camping in the mountains. The sisters actually owned much of the land. It had been inherited from their father. Glendol...