#AmericanWriters
There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”
The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window