#Americans #XXCentury
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...
at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window
It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…