#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around