#AmericanWriters
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him
I met her somehow through correspo… and she began sending me very sexy… and this being mixed in with a min… confused me somewhat and I got in… through the mountains and valleys…
“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...
here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…
Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...
yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
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
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me