#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old
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
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...