Monthly Archives: December 2024

Merry Yulemas December 23, 2022

In August 2021 I woke from sleep and vomited several liters of blood. The next day NYU ER doctors diagnosed my situation as life-threatening. An operation to staunch the bleeding was my only option other than death. The staff wheeled me immediatly to the Operating Room. I was knocked out with Profopol. Michael Jackson had […]

JOURNAL ENTRY DECEMBER 22, 1978

From 2022 After the hurricane swept the island, I set off in a leaking sailboat across the trashed sea and landed on a large island peopled by two warring factions. I and my faceless friends were drafted into a guerrilla troop and were deployed in the forest to ambush an unknown enemy. I was ordered […]

December 22, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

Andy promised to call me this afternoon from Boston. I hoped to stay with him in Brooline, instead of my parents in Milton. I waited by the SRO hall phone at the 11th Street SRO. Nothing. No call. I walked over to the St. Marks Bookstore, browsing Peter Matthieson THE SNOW LEOPARD. I wished I […]

Central Park Boat Pond 2024

October 7th 1993 Autumn settles on the boat pond Central Park trees Green to Orange to Yellow On the pond To radio controlled sloops Racing Through fallen leaves__ An imitation America Cup Both sail south Driven on a crisp northwesterly___ Central Park Not the East Village Rosy cheeked children Race around the pond Beyond arm’s […]

December 21, 1978 – East Village – Journal

GG Barnums was good fun last evening, especially dancing between a glamous queen and ballerina; Shannon and Dove. Shannon stuck poppers under my nose and Dove too, whispering ‘fuck me, fuck her’ in all seriousness dancing to Chic’s FREAK. Grant and John joined us in the dance orgy. It had been a long time since […]