#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
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
Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.
I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...