#AmericanWriters
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten