#AmericanWriters
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...