#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as
know. I know. they are limited, have different needs and concerns. but I watch and learn from them.
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
