#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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...
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
the balance is preserved by the sn… the Santa Monica cliffs; the luck is in walking down Wester… and having the girls in a massage parlor holler at you, “Hello, Swe…
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
my goldfish stares with watery eye… into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
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...