#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
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...
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
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...