#AmericanWriters
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
liked D . H. Lawrence he could get so indignant he snapped and he ripped with wonderfully energetic sentenc… he could lay the word down
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
death wants more death, and its we… I remember my father’s garage, how… I would brush the corpses of flies from the windows they thought were… their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.