#AmericanWriters
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
a very miraculous thing just happe… my beerbottle flipped over backwar… and landed on its bottom on the fl… and I have set it upon the table t… but the photos were not so lucky t…
the dream of a man is a whore with a gold tooth and a garter belt, perfumed with false eyebrows
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…