#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
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…
he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…
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...
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,