#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...