#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
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—
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...
you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...