#Americans #XXCentury
I can remember starving in a small room in a strange city shades pulled down, listening to classical music I was young I was so young it hur…
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
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...
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…
schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun
I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its