#AmericanWriters
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...