#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished
the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms
That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…