#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
a very miraculous thing just happe… my beerbottle flipped over backwar… and landed on its bottom on the fl… and I have set it upon the table t… but the photos were not so lucky t…