#AmericanWriters
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?
After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
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
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her