#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
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...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
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...
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
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...
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...