#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
the hearse comes through the room… the beheaded, the disappeared, the… mad. the flies are a glue of sticky pas… their wings will not
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...