#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
we like to shower afterwards (I like the water hotter than she) and her face is always soft and pe… and she’ll wash me first spread the soap over my balls
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
the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...