#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,