Love is a Dog From Hell (1977)

Published as a poetry collection by Black Sparrow Press, 15/9/1977

Works in this Book

• Ah - pg. 218 - 1976
• I've Seen Too Many Glazed-Eyed Bums - pg. 2
• For Al - pg. 9 - 1976
• The Insane Always Loved Me - pg. 14 - 1975
• Yellow Cab - pg. 15
• Sandra - pg. 15
• 99 To One - pg. 16
• You - pg. 17 - 1975
• Longshot - pg. 18 - 1976
• The 6 Foot Goddess - pg. 18 - 1976
• I Made A Mistake - pg. 20 - 1976
• Hawley's Leaving Town - pg. 210 - 1975
• Sexpot - pg. 21
• The Girl On The Bus Stop Bench - pg. 22 - 1976
• Sweet Music - pg. 23 - 1975
• Numb Your Ass And Your Brain And Your Heart - pg. 24 - 1975
• Doom And Siesta Time - pg. 25 - 1975
• One Of The Hottest - pg. 26 - 1975
• The Little Girls - pg. 260 - 1975
• Ashes - pg. 27 - 1976
• Shit Time - pg. 28
• Artist - pg. 290
• Fuck - pg. 29
• About Cranes - pg. 30
• Me - pg. 31 - circa 1972
• Another Bed - pg. 33 - 1976
• Trapped - pg. 35 - 1976
• Tonight - pg. 36 - 1976
• The Escape - pg. 37
• The Drill - pg. 38 - circa 1974
• Texan - pg. 39
• The Spider - pg. 41
• The End Of A Short Affair - pg. 43 - 1976
• Moaning And Groaning - pg. 46
• An Almost Made Up Poem - pg. 47
• Blue Cheese And Chili Peppers - pg. 49 - circa 1974
• Problems About The Other Woman - pg. 51 - circa 1975
• T.M. - pg. 53 - 1976
• Bee's 5th - pg. 55 - 1974
• 103 Degrees - pg. 57 - 1976
• Pacific Telephone - pg. 59 - 1976
• 225 Pounds - pg. 61 - 1976
• Turnabout - pg. 63
• One For Old Snaggle-Tooth - pg. 65 - 1976
• Communion - pg. 67 - 1976
• Trying To Get Even - pg. 69
• Chicago - pg. 72 - 1975
• Quiet Clean Girls In Gingham Dresses - pg. 74 - 1976
• We Will Taste The Islands And The Sea - pg. 76
• This Poet - pg. 79
• Winter - pg. 81 - 1975
• What They Want - pg. 82
• Iron Mike - pg. 83 - 1975
• Guru - pg. 85 - 1977
• The Professors - pg. 88 - 1975
• How To Be A Great Writer - pg. 92 - 1976
• The Price - pg. 95 - 1975
• Alone With Everybody - pg. 97
• The 2nd Novel - pg. 99 - 1975
• Chopin Bukowski - pg. 101 - 1975
• Gloomy Lady - pg. 103
• Cockroach - pg. 105 - 1975
• Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones? - pg. 106 - 1975
• Defeat - pg. 108
• Traffic Signals - pg. 109 - 1976
• 462-0614 - pg. 111 - circa 1976
• Photographs - pg. 113
• Social - pg. 115 - 1976
• One To The Breastplate - pg. 117
• The Worst And The Best - pg. 119 - 1975
• Coupons - pg. 121 - 1976
• Luck - pg. 122
• Dog - pg. 123
• Trench Warfare - pg. 124 - 1975
• The Night I Fucked My Alarm Clock - pg. 127
• When I Think Of Myself Dead - pg. 128
• Christmas Eve, Alone - pg. 129 - 1973
• There Once Was Woman Who Put Her Head Into An Oven - pg. 131 - 1976
• Beds, Toilets, You And Me - pg. 132 - 1976
• This Then - pg. 134 - 1976
• Imagination And Reality - pg. 135 - 1975
• Stolen - pg. 137 - 1975
• The Meek Have Inherited - pg. 139 - 1975
• Big Max - pg. 142
• It's The Way You Play The Game - pg. 145
• On The Continent - pg. 146 - 1975
• 12:18 A.M. - pg. 148
• How Come You're Not Unlisted? - pg. 152 - 1976
• Weather Report - pg. 154 - circa 1975
• Clean Old Man - pg. 155 - 1975
• Something - pg. 156
• A Plate Glass Window - pg. 157 - 1975
• Junkies - pg. 159 - 1975
• The Crunch - pg. 162 - circa 1977
• A Horse With Greenblue Eyes - pg. 165 - 1975
• Scarlet - pg. 169
• Red Up And Down - pg. 171
• Like A Flower In The Rain - pg. 173
• Light Brown - pg. 175 - 1976
• Huge Ear Rings - pg. 176 - 1976
• She Came Out Of The Bathroom - pg. 178 - 1976
• A Killer - pg. 179
• The Promise - pg. 182 - 1976
• Waving And Waving Goodbye - pg. 184 - 1976
• Liberty - pg. 186 - 1976
• Don't Touch The Girls - pg. 187 - 1976
• Dark Shades - pg. 189
• Prayer In Bad Weather - pg. 191 - 1976
• Melancholia - pg. 193 - 1976
• A Stethoscope Case - pg. 195 - 1976
• Eat Your Heart Out - pg. 196
• The Retreat - pg. 198 - 1976
• Girls In Pantyhose - pg. 203 - 1975
• Up Your Yellow River - pg. 205
• Artists - pg. 206
• I Have Shit Stains In My Underwear Too - pg. 209
• An Unkind Poem - pg. 212 - 1976
• The Bee - pg. 214 - 1976
• The Most - pg. 216
• I'm Getting Back To Where I Was - pg. 222 - 1975
• A Lovely Couple - pg. 223 - 1975
• The Strangest Sight You Ever Did See - pg. 225 - 1974
• In A Neighborhood Of Murder - pg. 227
• Private First Class - pg. 228 - 1974
• Love Is A Dog From Hell - pg. 229
• My Groupie - pg. 231
• Now, If You Were Teaching Creative Writing - pg. 233 - 1975
• The Good Life - pg. 235 - 1975
• The Greek - pg. 237
• My Comrades - pg. 239 - 1973
• Soul - pg. 241 - circa 1974
• A Change Of Habit - pg. 243 - 1974
• $$$$$$ - pg. 245
• Sitting In A Sandwich Joint - pg. 249 - 1975
• As Crazy As I Ever Was - pg. 252 - 1976
• Sex - pg. 254 - 1976
• Dead Now - pg. 255 - 1976
• Twins - pg. 257 - 1976
• The Place Didn't Look Bad - pg. 259 - 1975
• Rain Or Shine - pg. 262 - 1975
• Cold Plums - pg. 263 - 1974
• Girls Coming Home - pg. 265 - 1972
• Some Picnic - pg. 267
• Bedpans - pg. 269 - 1976
• The Good Loser - pg. 272 - 1975
• An Art - pg. 274 - 1975
• The Girls At The Green Hotel - pg. 276 - 1975
• A Good One - pg. 278 - 1975
• Madness - pg. 282 - 1976
• A 56 Year Old Poem - pg. 284
• The Beautiful Young Girl Walking Past The Graveyard - pg. 286 - 1976
• Beer - pg. 288 - 1976
• My Old Man - pg. 292 - 1975
• Fear - pg. 295 - 1976
• Little Tigers Everywhere - pg. 297 - 1975
• After The Reading - pg. 299 - 1975
• A Gold Pocket Watch - pg. 302 - 1975
• Beach Trip - pg. 303
• One For The Shoeshine Man - pg. 305

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