#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the sun slides down through the shades. have a pair of black shoes and a pair of brown shoes. can hardly remember the girls of my yout… there is numb blood pulsing through the
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
#1978 #Women
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood Blvd… and she kept haggling and working at me, snapping and snarling.
I awaken about noon and go out to get th… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and t… “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said… “Baby, that’s grammar school. Any damn… She didn’t want it. Then I explained that a man couldn’t fi…
#1971 #PostOffice
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind them yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the inevitabl…
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax job I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I got ev… I need.
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
drunk on the dark streets of some city, it’s night, you’re lost, where’s your room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
To pacify Lydia I agreed to go to Muleshead, Utah. Her sister was camping in the mountains. The sisters actually owned much of the land. It had been inherited from their father. Glendol...
first of all, I had a hard time, a very… locating the parking lot for the buildin… wasn’t off the main boulevard where the cars all driven by merciless killers were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone.