#1973 #AmericanWriters #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…
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
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...