#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...
Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...
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...
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.