#AmericanWriters
One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...
drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…