#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
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
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...