#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
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…
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...