#AmericanWriters
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…
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…
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...
see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
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...
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing: