#AmericanWriters
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
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.
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…