#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case