It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and t...
If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.
Do you realize the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose? I always have, ever since I was a child. There are so many subtle variations of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth fing...
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the sm...
And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.
We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith i...
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
When am I going to see you?Do you really want to know?Very much.Never, I said, and hung up with a resolute click.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was r...
Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?
I went to the bronze boy whom I love, partly because no one really cares for him
I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.