#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
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…
yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like