#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…