#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…