#AmericanWriters
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
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,…
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
the sun slides down through the sh… have a pair of black shoes and a p… brown shoes. can hardly remember the girls of m… there is numb blood pulsing throug…
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.