#Americans #XXCentury
I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were
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…
Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...
It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…