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Seeing Past the Hudson – Poetry 1978 – Journal

February 9, 2025 – 12:02 pm

Soft, the West Wind Blowing visions Of a continent From beyond the Hudson River Jersey to the Delaware Water Gap The Midwest corn fields 360 flat horizens The Mississippi Corn giving way to cattle The Missouri High prarie rising from the Midwest Sighting of the Rockies Desert Nevada More desert The Sierras Oh California Oh, […]

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January 4, 1979 – East Village – Journal

January 4, 2025 – 11:11 am

Today is Alice’s Birthday. No sex. All I intend to do today is make her life a pleasure. I do love her.

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January 3, 1979 – Journal – East Village

January 3, 2025 – 10:33 am

Alice and I get drunk at CBGBs with Bill Yusk. At CBGBs. Where else? Alice was mad at me, because she had to wait at the door. Lisa Krystal wouldn’t let her in for free without me. Kim wasn’t waitressing either. “I don’t understand why they treat you like they do.” Alice thinks I’m nothing. […]

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Journal Entry – January 2, 1978

January 2, 2025 – 1:55 pm

Star-crossed day for me. I saw a man retching into the snow on 2nd Avenue, obviously in the throes of alcoholic poisoning. Enough on him.

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JOURNAL EXCERPT – JANUARY 1, 1979 – EAST VILLAGE

January 1, 2025 – 6:58 pm

We saw in New Year’s Eve at Hurrah and then took a taxi downtown. Traffic congested before Madison Square Garden. A skinny blonde man with orange-blonde hair stood bare-chested the the traffic. Cheetah Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys and we shouted the lead guitarist’s name in passing. Alice, Anthony, Alexa, and I got out […]

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