#AmericanWriters
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
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.
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.
cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.