#AmericanWriters
I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...
“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
I’m in b ed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often