#Americans #XXCentury
my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...
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
remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”
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...
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…