#AmericanWriters #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...
is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
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
around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now
I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…