#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...
That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…