#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
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...
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses