#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
reached up into the top of the clo… and took out a pair of blue pan ti… and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?” and she looked and said,
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to
I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
“she shoots up in the neck,” she t… me. I told her to stick it into my ass and she tried and said, “oh oh… and I said, “what the hell’s the m… she said, “nothing, this is New Y…