#AmericanWriters
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
the shit shits yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma…
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...