#AmericanWriters
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
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…
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...
sometimes you climb out of bed in… I’m not going to make it, but you… remembering all the times you’ve f… you walk to the bathroom, do your… in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my,…
The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...
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...
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
the cockroach crouched against the tile while I was pissing and as I turned my head he hauled his butt
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…