#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…
he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
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.
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land