#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
as the poems go into the thousands… realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sun… the traffic, the nights and the da…
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head