#AmericanWriters #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
