Monthly Archives: December 2023

December 2, 1978 – Journal Entry Later

December 14, 2023 – 10:41 am

In the morning Alice says, “I want to see the country. All of it.” She is going home to West Viginia for the holidays. Split between her divorced parents. A daunting experience and she asks, “Can you come skiing with me at Snowshoe?” An Appalachian ski resort. “I’d love to, but I’m going north to […]

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Dec 2, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry – Poem

December 13, 2023 – 2:43 pm

Disenfranchised By a dead society Detested by cult cliques Dedicated to false idols Death to their dishonor Not noble by birth. Not common by the desire They are not the avant garde Few speak of revolution. I want to fight alone. It’s a wasted fight. I don’t know what to fight for. Equality, justice, family, […]

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Dec 2, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

December 13, 2023 – 2:35 pm

I had been serious sick from food poisoning this week. Puking and shitting non-stop.Two days of retching in the WC toilet. I slept in the living room to keep it close. Pus getting out of the loft bed was dangerous in my condition. I felt like Doc Holiday in Tombstone. Always ready to die. Alice […]

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A Lucky Man

December 13, 2023 – 12:23 pm

I was at the Korean Bodega the other day and the counter person wished my two wives and family well. The Hassidim behind me said,”I have one wife, ten children, and over one hundred grandchildren.” “Then one wife is enough ” Oi vey ist mir.

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Oi Vey Hannukah

December 7, 2023 – 11:52 am

For centuries Hanukkah has traditionally celebrated the victory of the Maccabees over the Alexandrine Empire, although the real battle was between the orthodox Maccabees and the secular Jews favoring the social liberalism of the Greeks. The latter were the losers and the former rededicated the Temple by lighting the eternal flame. Miraculously the oil burned […]

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