#AmericanWriters
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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 ...
they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...