#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and ho… upon the billion—blooded sea I pass upon serious inward—breakin… with white—legged, white—bellied r…
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little