#AmericanWriters
murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
reached up into the top of the clo… and took out a pair of blue pan ti… and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?” and she looked and said,
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal
as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin: don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
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…
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you