#AmericanWriters
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...
“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....
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
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…
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
“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.
This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.