#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…