Monthly Archives: January 2025

1-1-2007 – PATTAYA

January 1, 2025 – 10:12 pm

Having gone to sleep slightly after the stroke of 12am on New Year’s Eve, I woke with the dawn the next morning. Champoo, my little dog, was dying for a walk and I tiptoed through the sprawled bodies of my wife’s guests. They had had too much food and drink unlike me. I was nearly stone-sober. My […]

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New Year’s Traffic Death Festival 2019

January 1, 2025 – 8:34 pm

From 2019 The Thai Festival for the end of 2018 has come to an end. The police are are overwhelmed by the traffic, as milliions of Thais travel to the distant provinces to see their families. The holiday death toll reached over 400 with countless thousands injured in car and motorcycle accidents. Driving drunk is […]

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OLD POEM FROM THE UNKNOWN

January 1, 2025 – 6:09 pm

From 2022 In the end I saw myself As others saw me. A middle-aged man to turn older An older man to become ancient Since age eight Refusing to obey the vow of Faith Demanded by the Sisters of St. Mary__ Now I never kneel before the altar I never ask for forgiveness for my […]

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Back From The Dead 2011

January 1, 2025 – 3:21 pm

My New Year’s Eve plans were local. Watch the Celtics-New Orleans game at Mullane’s followed up by an early beer at Frank’s then home to my Fort Greene Penthouse to watch the final sunset of 2011 before getting attire in my evening suit. Nothing says New Year’s Eve better than a tux. I polished off […]

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JUST ANOTHER NIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

January 1, 2025 – 2:21 pm

From 2014 Last night was New Year’s Eve. My redheaded poetess friend Irene phoned to invite me to a 20-something party in Bushwick. “You’ll be the oldest man there.” Irene was going solo. “Almost three times older.” We were just friends. “I think of you as 16.” She had witnessed my silliness on more than […]

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