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Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...
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;
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.
bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets
I paid this one’s fare all the way… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her br… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhe…
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…
I had just won $115 from the heads… was naked upon my bed listening to an opera by one of th… and had just gotten rid of a very… when there was a knock upon the wo…
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
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
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…