#Americans #XXCentury
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
#1978 #Women
she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that match. was born in Andernach in 1920 and never…
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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.
There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...
#1971 #PostOffice
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Stickpin?… “What did he do when you told him you we… “We were sitting across from each other… “What happened?”
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and we had… detour and they directed us up into the… and traffic was slow and it was hot, and… we were lost.
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
When I awakened a few hours later, Tany… “Jesus, you start early.” “I always wake up at 6 am and I get up.… “I always get up at noon. We’re going t… Tanya hit the whiskey and I went back t…
I wait on life like a pregnancy, put the… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth through are… brain
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
#1982 #HamOnRye
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man