#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…
as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
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...
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
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
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way