#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
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...
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every