#AmericanWriters
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
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…
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.
I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street