#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,
drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end o… of wine, I have typed from a dozen… poesy an old man maddened for the flesh of young gi…
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen
That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...