#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes de cades to realize this and most often
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...