#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and