#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into