#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the boy walks with his muddy feet across… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi, conduc… the lesser known novels of Dostoevsky; talking about how he corrected a waitres…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hurt like…
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said. no, said a guy standing by us on the pie…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood Blvd… and she kept haggling and working at me, snapping and snarling.
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
#1978 #Women
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
#1982 #HamOnRye
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butterflie… in half and some men do it in Palm Springs
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
#1971 #PostOffice
majestic, majic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walked towa… me, we shook hands, he slipped me 2 red tickets for free car washes, “find you l… told him, walked on through to waiting area with wife, we sat on outside bench.