#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...