#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear