#AmericanWriters
was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
the old fart, he used his literary… to reel them in one at a time, each younger than the last. he liked to meet them for luncheon… wine
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.