Category Archives: brooklyn

Rent-Free Hell 2016

April 20, 2025 – 3:58 am

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and on the C train between Hoyt-Schemmerhorn and Lafayette Street a young man was preaching about the wrath of his lord. “God loves his flock, but hates a sinner. All you sinners will have a special place of torment in Hell.” He glared about the subway car like Josef Mengele, the […]

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Holy Saturday

April 19, 2025 – 4:06 pm

In 2009 AP and his family left Fort Greene for the Easter Weekend. I spent the time alone in the brownstone, feeding the cats, turtle, and fish. My sense of worth was low and I treat the self-loathing with beer, preferably Narragansett. That lager tasted of New England. Saturday morning morning I finished re-writing IN […]

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Tough Guy – Myrtle Avenue

April 7, 2025 – 10:00 am

One walking back From buying a Newport loosie On Myrtle across from the park Smoking slow Walking slower A bald black man muscular His fit dog dropped to his belly__ “I know how you feel.” I say to dog His man “Shut the fuck up, honky.” “I ain’t the type to shut up, Plus I […]

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55 REMSEN by Peter Nolan Smith

February 15, 2025 – 4:37 pm

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister In the fall of 1975 I worked as a substitute teacher at South Boston High School. The city’s school system was torn by busing riots. Poor white kids attended school in poor black neighborhoods and vice […]

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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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