#AmericanWriters #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
she only fucks the ones she doesn’… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…
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, ...
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
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;
In bed I had something in front o… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I ro… Then something awakened me. It wa… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. Sh…
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...
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
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
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting