#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
when God created love he didn’t he… when God created dogs He didn’t h… when God created plants that was a… when God created hate we had a sta… when God created me He created me
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…