#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
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
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…