#AmericanWriters
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
Not much happened during the rest of her stay. We drank, we ate, we fucked. There were no arguments. We took long drives down along the shore, ate at seafood cafes. I didn’t bother with...
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
I had just won $115 from the heads… was naked upon my bed listening to an opera by one of th… and had just gotten rid of a very… when there was a knock upon the wo…
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
I read that he lost a suitcase ful… train and that they never were rec… I can’t match the agony of this but the other night I wrote a 3—pa… upon this computer
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,