#AmericanWriters
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
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
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.