#AmericanWriters
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
I began getting dizzy spells. I could feel them coming. The case would begin to whirl. The spells lasted about a minute. I couldn’t understand it. Each letter was getting heavier and he...
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus
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
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…