#AmericanWriters
My mother never heard of Freud and she decided as a little girl that she would call her husband Di… no matter what his first name was and did. He called her Ditty. The…
As an American traveler I have to remember not to get actionably… about the way things are around he… Tomorrow I’ll be a thousand miles… from the way it is around here. I…
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional war in As… when some academic son of a bitch,
Oh I got up and went to work and worked and came back home and ate and talked and went to sle… Then I got up and went to work and worked and came back home
He had a back office in his older… advertising agency and understood… He turned his father’s small inher… on hemorrhoid ads between three-ho… at the Plaza every day and cocktai…
Nothing is plumb, level, or square… the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch, and bent nails
Once, one of my students read a bo… She was doing a history assignment… the decline and fall of the Roman… and crying. When I asked her why she said Because. All those peopl…
1. ON ASPHALT: NO G… Quarry out the stone of land, cobble the beach, wall surf, name it “street,” allow no ground or green
I live inside of a machine or machines. Every time one goes off another starts. Why don’t I go outside and sleep on the ground. It is because
What is better than leaving a bar in the middle of the afternoon besides staying in it or not having gone into it in the first p… because you had a decent woman to…
God, I need a job because I need… Here the world is, enjoyable with… women, ultimate weapons, and class… But if I have no money, then my w… gets mad at me, I can’t drink well…
The trees in time have something else to do besides their treeing. What is it. I’m a starving to death man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
I know but will not tell you, Aunt Irene, why there are soap suds in the whiskey: Uncle Robert had to have A drink while shaving.
“If you work a body of water and a… you can take fish out of one and c… for the two kinds of survival. The… both kinds are adequate in pleasur… but the hard work and the miseries…
This is the time of night at the d… when the manager is balancing a nearly empty ketchup bottle upside-down on a nearly full ketch… and spreading his hands slowly awa…