#AmericanWriters
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
this one teaches that one lives with his mother and that one is supported by a red… with the brain of a gnat. this one takes speed and has been…