#AmericanWriters
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt
the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…