#AmericanWriters
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
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
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and