#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...
After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...