#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
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…
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties… so you can finger-fuck me in the
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)