#AmericanWriters
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes de cades to realize this and most often
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and