#AmericanWriters
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
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…
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...