#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
The next time you listen to Borod… remember he was just a chemist who wrote music to relax; his house was jammed with peor e: students, artists, drunkards, bur…
Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
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
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves