#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
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 ...
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...