#AmericanWriters
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
out of the arm of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
the bulls are grand as the side of… and although they kill them for th… it is the bull that burns the fire… and although there are cowardly bu… there are cowardly matadors and co…
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...
he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness