#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
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...
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…