#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…