one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

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?”

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would

Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.