#AmericanWriters
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
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 ...
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack program… in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file
it was on the 2nd floor on Coronad… I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the wi… while it was playing, and, of cour… it would break the glass in the wi…
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...
I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...
I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal