#AmericanWriters
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
they found him walking along the f… all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut off his sexual
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
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...
first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…