#Americans #XXCentury
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi
see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.
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...
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
I saw Bobby out front the next day when I went to buy a newspaper. “Louie phoned,” he said, “he told me what happened to him.” “He ran outside to vomit and Tammie grabbed his cock while...
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
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
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…
An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish