#AmericanWriters
I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
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
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she