#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—