#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and
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 ...
“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.
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;