#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
Office of Postmaster—United States Post Office—January 1, 1970 The attention of all employees is directed to the Code of Ethics for postal employees as set forth in Part 742 of the Post...
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
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 funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would