#Americans #XXCentury
my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear
awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
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…
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...