#AmericanWriters
The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
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
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks