#1973 #AmericanWriters #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
when God created love he didn’t he… when God created dogs He didn’t h… when God created plants that was a… when God created hate we had a sta… when God created me He created me