#AmericanWriters
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
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
Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...
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 cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
majestic, majic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—