#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
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...
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
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...
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten