#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
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...
The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…