#AmericanWriters
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…
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking
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...
I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
it was on the 2nd floor on Coronad… I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the wi… while it was playing, and, of cour… it would break the glass in the wi…
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack