#AmericanWriters #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before
I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...
these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...