#Americans #XXCentury
he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
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...
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…
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
here I’m supposed to be a great po… and I’m sleepy in the afternoon here I am aware of death like a gi… charging at me and I’m sleepy in the afternoon