#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
strange warmth, hot and cold femal… I make good love, but love isn’t j… sex. most females I’ve known are ambitious, and I like to lie aroun… on large comfortable pillows at 3…
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...