#Americans #XXCentury
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...
I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;