#AmericanWriters
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…
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear
Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.
the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire
I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window