Category Archives: youth

HORSENECK BEACH by Peter Nolan Smith

August 10, 2023 – 8:05 am

Written May 17 1994 The morning after my senior prom in 1970 I drove my date down to Horseneck Beach in my older brother’s VW Beetle. The graduating class of my all-boys parochial high school were having a beer bash in the dunes. We crossed the bridge over the Westport River at noon. After parking […]

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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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The Nearest Planet

June 8, 2023 – 9:44 am

Back in 2019 I met my friend’s son in the Meat Packing District. Alfred was a business graduate of Princeton. Magna Cum Laude. His parents considered him genius at 21. His father wanted me to introduce him to a big-time investment banker to whom I sold diamonds back in the days of plenty. It was […]

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ANCIENT PORN by Peter Nolan Smith

June 1, 2023 – 2:32 am

Pornography is derived from the Greeks linking two words; prostitute and I read. The portrayal of sexual acts can be traced to pre-Ice Age. Scientist claim a naked figurine carved from a mammoth ivory was man’s first attempt at figurative representation. Opponents to this thought counter that lurid images were not found amongst the thousands […]

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WHEELS OF FIRE by Peter Nolan Smith

April 27, 2023 – 1:28 am

In the late summer of 1971 my Paul Deseret and I hitchhiked from Boston to San Francisco. Several of our college friends were living in the Haight. They were girls. I had had sex with one of them and sleeping with Marilyn again was enough of a reason to cross a continent, especially since neither […]

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