#AmericanWriters
In bed I had something in front o… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I ro… Then something awakened me. It wa… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. Sh…
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
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...
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
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 ...
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh