#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the