DREAMS
I walk through the drakenss and the sound of bells peal from the Brooklyn churches call for everyone to leave Earth, except for me and 125 women. Why they left and we stayed is beyond me.

President Jimmy Carter and I pull up to a yacht club. He went directly to the Sequoia and I drank with friends. Cher came into the bar and couldn’t find a seat.

I gave her mine.
LATER
Clinton Avenue

Matthew and I had a good time at Coney Island. He badly wanted a roller coaster ride, except the Cyclone was under repair. The ocean is hurting with tar and shit in the surf. The beach is covered wth trash, broken glass from decades of human abuse. Matthew and I rode the bumping car, which were great fun, until he lost a contact lens.

I’m heading to Hunter College for my bi-weekly acting class. Tonight should be strange.

Rare are the summer days of clear light
The sun can not burn off the haze.
Rarer still are the days of easy breathing
But I knew that when I moved here
From Boston in a stolen car
At night driven by the need to leave a racist city
Gambling all on the love of a southern woman.
Ro left for Paris the day I arrived
The stolen car gone with the dawn too.

LATER

I spoke with Libby on the phone. She has my silver brush. I won’t have to stop in Westport on the way to Boston.

Class tonight with Billy reenacting a drunken bout and I released into a combative character, but improv is a game allowing people to walk inside you.

Chuck is enthused about my script D. DESCENDING. His reading from it makes me understand how far I have to go with writing. He and Carla play roles in various scenes. She goes home with me, but Turns around to watch Chuck. Man and Wife once. Still in love.