Category Archives: Poetry

A Bee O’er Bleecker

May 12, 2024 – 9:21 am

A bee buzzed the 9th Floor O’er Bleecker Seeking sweet nectar Only Dead Flowers here The bee a Rolling Stones fan. DEAD FLOWERS

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Angry White People – 2011

May 11, 2024 – 10:05 am

When I moved in the East Village with my hillbilly girlfriend in 1977, I never walked down East 10th Street between 1st Avenue and Second Avenue. I told my girlfriend to not do the same. She obeyed my edict, because it was the right thing to do and she was from West Virginia. No one […]

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Off To Rockaway – Full Speed Ahead

May 8, 2024 – 9:53 am

May 7 Seven months in New York Like a marooned sailor Like Richard Burton The Nile explorer On the beach in Trieste Ships sailing away on the Adriatic Burton going nowhere Like me. But Today I stand on A Wall Street Wharf Not a hint of winter on the river Spring 75 Sunny I am […]

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Roma – Winter – 1985

May 5, 2024 – 12:38 pm

In the winter of 1985 Tanino Liberatore and I traveled in his Fiat from Paris over the Alps into Italy. He was the famed cartoonist of RanXerox a powerful android robot, the love slave of the underage Lubna. We had collaborated on a graphic comic aor bain-dessine and were bound to the Eternal City to […]

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Cafe De Paris London 1985

May 3, 2024 – 10:56 pm

1984 London Leicester Square The Cafe de Paris Music DJed by Albert de Paname Dancing The young The place to be Black Jack and I At the door A ten-thick crowd Other side of the ropes. We control the destiny of the night. In or out. Ingrid arrives with Alice Svelte Blonde English Jacques and […]

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