#AmericanWriters
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
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....
During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes
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 ...
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
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 ...
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
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…
On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...