#AmericanWriters
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
no one is sorry I am leaving, not even I; but there should be a minstrel or at least a glass of wine. bothers the young most, I think:
That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...
The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...
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,
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch just a little Enough to kill a horse in the stre… But there aren’t any horses in the… Enough to knock the flowers from a…
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn