#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
my friend William is a fortunate m… he lacks the imagination to suffer he kept his first job his first wife can drive a car 50,000 miles
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and