#Americans #XXCentury
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
#1978 #Women
I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...
#1971 #PostOffice
the canaries were there, and the lemon t… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
these things that we support most well have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
my mother knocked on my rooming-house do… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
I got his ashes, she said, and I took t… out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
the mockingbird had been following the c… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on porches
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
#1982 #HamOnRye
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were up. A… I set the alarm so that I would be at t… “What happened, Hank? We thought maybe… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wanting…
Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...
One Sunday Jimmy talked me into going t… to go swimming. I didn’t want to he seen… body. But nobody would notice that. I h… but nobody would see that. I here was nothing to do and I didn’t h…
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
he lives in a house with a swimming pool and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem to get rid of