#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
#1978 #Women
she drives into the parking lot while I am leaning up against the fender of my… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet with te… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me when… didn’t want to. you told me to keep phon…
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
#1971 #PostOffice
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every day with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, and there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small trout p…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at the loca… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s. Buffy has boy twins, father in doubt, an… in a $150-a-month apt.
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
The next day was Saturday and Debra coo… “All right.” “Are you hungover?” she asked. “Not too bad.” We ate in silence for a while, then she…
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each eyebro…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
like in a chair the color of the sun as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...
was on the train to Del Mar and I left… to go to the bar car. I had a beer and c… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to me, “b… sitting in my husband’s seat.”
drunk on the dark streets of some city, it’s night, you’re lost, where’s your room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
