#AmericanWriters
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...
The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...
I am a panther shut up and bellowi… cement walls, and I am angry at bl… evenings without ventilation and I am angry with you, and it wi… like a rose
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
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I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.
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…
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.