#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...