#AmericanWriters #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.
you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.
of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…
I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,