#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”