#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
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
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark
the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care