#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
too much too little too fat too thin or nobody.
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
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
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...