#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
Lydia’s sister Angela came to town from Utah to see Lydia’s new house. Lydia had made a down payment on a little place and the monthly payments were very low. It was a very good buy. Th...
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen