#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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...
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
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 ...
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...