#AmericanWriters
I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…
light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head