#AmericanWriters
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight