#AmericanWriters #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones
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…
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...
I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;