#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
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...
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...
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
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...
as the spirit wanes the form
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips