#AmericanWriters
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
Making love in the sun, in the mor… in a hotel room above the alley where poor men poke for bottles; making love in the sun
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
I had this room in front on DeLon… and I used to sit for hours in the daytime looking out the front window.
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...
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…
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...