#AmericanWriters
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
she undressed in front of me keeping her pussy to the front while I lay in bed with a bottle o… beer. where’d you get that wart on
sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,