#AmericanWriters
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
listening to Bruckner on the radio wondering why I’m not half mad over the latest breakup with my latest girlfriend wondering why I’m not driving the…
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time