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AUGUST 6, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

4 am in Times Square. Bums, crazies, and the poor camp on the sidewalk. I step over them, as if they were the dead. One wino rises his head and burbles from a flaky rotting mouth, “Gimme some change.” I drop some quarters in his hand. Enough for two cruellers at Disco Donut on East […]

AUGUST 4, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

The Red Sox break out of their slump, taking two games from the Yankees. Jim Rice looks slow, but they are playing in 95F weather. The weather is no better in the East Village. The agust air is exhausted by summer. I’ve only been to the beach once in comparison to my beach bum days […]

2017 February

A snow day. Eight inches and more. Everyone took a snow day. The white snow covered all of Fort Greene. I traveled north to Catskill on the Hudson. Every miles brought me to the grasp of winter. The Hudson River flowed in the light of the setting sun. Charlotta met me at the station and […]

2017 January

I spend the first day of the year with the Camp family in Duchess County. It was cold, but not that cold. There wasn’t much snow. The light made us all young. Even me. A snow storm came and the Christmas tree went out on the street in New York. It snowed more in Fort […]