#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
the sun slides down through the sh… have a pair of black shoes and a p… brown shoes. can hardly remember the girls of m… there is numb blood pulsing throug…
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often