#AmericanWriters
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…
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
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…
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a