#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
do not b other the beagle lying th… away from grass and flowers and pa… dreaming dogdreams, or perhaps dre… nothing, as men do awake; yes, leave him be, in that simple…
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—