#AmericanWriters
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...