#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
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...
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;