#AmericanWriters #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.
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 ...