#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.
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…
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
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.
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
