#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard a long high scream and a quite attractive
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
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...
she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair