#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
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...
Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...
having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.