#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...
So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man