#Americans #XXCentury
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—half handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poems? well, they’ll just have to wait
you have to have it or the walls will cl… in. you have to give everything up, throw it away, everything away. you have to look at what you look at
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
stepped into the wrong end of the Jacuzz… right leg which was bad to begin with, t… with a tv writer and an actor, something… life to make a sitcom and luckily that f… day at the track I get a box seat in the…
if you can’t stand the heat, he says, ge… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’m in t… oven.
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
went for a walk on Hollywood Boulevard. looked down and there was a large white… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as mine. we stopped at traffic signals together.
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go… I met Betty on the street. “I saw you with that bitch a while back.… “None of them are.” I told her it was over. We went for a b…
#1971 #PostOffice
the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.
The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
as I go to the escalator young fellow and a lovely young girl are ahead of me. her pants, her blouse are skintight. as we ascend
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a bush you crushed the whole bush,
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current