#AmericanWriters
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
do not b other the beagle lying th… away from grass and flowers and pa… dreaming dogdreams, or perhaps dre… nothing, as men do awake; yes, leave him be, in that simple…
The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...
luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that
Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...
a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
Van Gogh cut off his ear gave it to a prostitute who flung it away in extreme
Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...
and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and