#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
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.
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
great writer remains in bed shades down doesn’t want to see anyone doesn’t want to write anymore doesn’t want to try anymore;
once we were young at this machine. . . drinking
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
they called Céline a Nazi they called Pound a fascist they called Hamsun a Nazi and a f… they put Dostoevsky in front of a… squad
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old