#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...