#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes de cades to realize this and most often
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?