#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.