#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
long ag o he edited a little magaz… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
awake n at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.