#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
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...
In bed I had something in front o… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I ro… Then something awakened me. It wa… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. Sh…
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
no way back to Barcelona. the green soldiers have invaded th… madmen rule Spain and during a heat wave in 1952 I b… no way back to the Rock of Gibral…
she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite