#AmericanWriters
I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,