Category Archives: NEW YORK

Away To Rockaway

July 28, 2023 – 12:57 pm

This last winter had overrun the Spring into late-April. I wore my cold weather gear well into the month. The snow lingered in the shadows. Finally the season gave up the ghost. And then the snow was gone. Flowers bloomed in Brooklyn. Ice cream trucks came out of hiding. Trees bore the pink shade of […]

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WANTED MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2023 – 6:03 pm

Staten Island was formed by the melt-off of the Ice Age. The fifth borough doesn’t exist to most New Yorkers, but my doctor lived next to the Tibetan Museum on Lighthouse Hill. Nick and I attended the same college and every year he invited me out to his house for my annual medical examination. Last […]

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Professor Berthell Ollman’s Letter of Resignation

July 11, 2023 – 9:54 am

I just read Professor Ollman his 1986 letter of resignation from the Jewish people, because of the Zionists’ treatment of the Palestinians. A brilliant treatise ending with a Lenny Bruce piece. An hour of reading. The last lines. “As far as I?m concerned, the comedian, Lenny Bruce, provided the only good answer to this question […]

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Wanted In Thirty-eight States

July 11, 2023 – 9:40 am

Coming back from midtown Subway Sunday slow A Train to Brooklyn A younger older man He asks, “Are you famous?” Like Ulysees to the cyclops I say, “I am no one.” He begs to differ. “You are someone. My name is Prince. From East New York. I done twenty-five. For five murders. The po-lice shot […]

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AT FIRST SIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

June 26, 2023 – 7:30 am

1979 was a great year to live in New York. I wrote poems about the Bowery and worked at the city’s #1 punk disco. My girlfriend was a beautiful blonde model from Buffalo. Lisa preferred to hang out at Studio 54 than my club Hurrah, saying, “Being seen there is good for my career.” She […]

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