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16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”
we are always asked to understand the other person’s viewpoint no matter how out—dated
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse