#AmericanWriters
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire,
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
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…
one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...