#1973 #AmericanWriters #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...
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…
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...
drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.