#AmericanWriters
you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
there is enough treachery, hatred… human being to supply any given ar… and the best at murder are those w… and the best at hate are those who… and the best at war finally are th…
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
she undressed in front of me keeping her pussy to the front while I lay in bed with a bottle o… beer. where’d you get that wart on
hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
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. ...
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…