Category Archives: poor

AUGUST 11, 1978- JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE II

August 11, 2021 – 8:11 pm

This morning I woke twenty-one cents in my pocket and my heads hurting from too much alcohol. I thought I had a couple of dollars more. There was nothing. We only have eggs, bread, and butter in the refrigerator. Alice cries about our poverty. “I don’t know what I am doing here.” You’re working and […]

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Clicking Your Heels Will Not Get You Home or Kansas

May 25, 2021 – 1:46 am

In the Spring of 1962 my father had business in New York City. My grandmother volunteered to take care our my younger brothers and sisters, allowing my older brother and me to accompany our parents to the great city to the south of Boston. Upon our arrival my father drove to the southern tip of […]

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White Trash Fairy Tale

November 14, 2017 – 11:21 am

Traditionally there are only three ways to get rich; birth, marriage, or theft. Anne Nichole Smith, Texas sex bomb, stepped off the runway of a strip club into popular culture by wedding an admiring oil tycoon. Their sixty-three year age difference evoked cries of gold-digger from the billionaire’s family. That accusation might have been true, […]

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Our Lady of Palm Beach MIA

October 26, 2017 – 12:24 pm

In the summer of 2008 I took care of an 8 year-old Airedale in Palm Beach. The owners had rescued her from a shelter. Pom Pom was a little crazy. She liked to growl at people and loved biting little manicured dogs. My friend Lisa thought Pom Pom was a frat dog raised by college […]

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Bojo Sleeps In The Rough

April 16, 2016 – 5:38 pm

Boris Johnson the Mayor of London has called for the removal of anti-homeless spikes in upscale neighborhoods. He may be a tory, but Bojo is no Dodgy David Cameron

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