#Americans #XXCentury
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...
we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and
I see you drinking at a fountain w… blue hands, no, your hands are not… they are small, and the fountain i… where you wrote me that last lette… I answered and never heard from yo…
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...