#Americans #XXCentury
having the low down blues and going into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my time: everybody was waiting for the main event… drinking beer, and I was thinking
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I paid this one’s fare all the way from… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her brother’… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhead, an…
the bulls are grand as the side of the s… and although they kill them for the stal… it is the bull that burns the fire, and although there are cowardly bulls as there are cowardly matadors and cowardly…
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
don’t worry about rejections, pard, I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
#1978 #Women
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk… “Oh, he’s so kind!” I heard all about him each night. “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old Purple S… “No, babe, that’s why I’m asking.”
#1971 #PostOffice
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upon my d… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens aroun… India dripping into Ceylon;
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
That summer, July 1934, they gunned dow… movie house in Chicago. He never had a… repealed and my father drank Eastside be… everybody feel terrible. Roosevelt was… over the radio and everybody listened. H…
#1982 #HamOnRye
the mockingbird had been following the c… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on porches