#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
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are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street