#AmericanWriters
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
I am watching a girl dressed in a light green sweater, blue shorts,… there is a necklace of some sort but her breasts are small, poor th… and she watches her nails
I have been painting these last tw… it’s not much, you’re correct, but in this tournament great dream… history removes her dress and beco… and I have awakened in the morning
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.
a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.