#Americans #XXCentury
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
O lord, he said, Japanese women, real women, they have not forgotte… bowing and smiling closing the wounds men have made; but American women will kill you l…