#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
they took my man off the street the other day he wore an L.A. Rams sweatshirt w… the sleeves cut off
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...