#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
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...
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…