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AUGUST 18, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY

August 17, 2021 – 4:15 pm

I’ve lost track of time. Alice keeps nagging me about money. I have none. I’m living on a bagel and pizza a day whenever I’m not a lunch waiter at EBASCO CORP. downtown on Vestry Street. Guadalcanal asked, “How bad can it be? Are you still sleeping together?” “No, I’m on the couch in the […]

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AUGUST 15, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY

August 15, 2021 – 12:34 pm

I spotted Alice in a Greek dinner on 2nd Avenue. I sneaked inside and snatched her pocketbook. Her arm bent and she caught the straps inside her elbow. She has become more city than I imagined and swore, “You asshole.” I rubbed my hand. I had hurt my fingers on my attempted joke and sat […]

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AUGUST 9, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 9, 2021 – 2:28 pm

AUGUST 9, 1979 Over a week ago my hillbilly girlfriend and I watched television at our friend’s Kim, duplex. We returned to my room of Ezast 11th Street around midnight. The SRO’s manager knocked on the door, asking, “Mr. Smith, are you moving tomorrow? Check-out is 11.” “Yes, I’m leaving, but now so leave me […]

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$180 In 1978

August 8, 2021 – 1:54 am

In 1978 I moved into a one-bedroom apartment on east 10th Street. The rent was $180. The bathtub was in the kitchen. By the time I left it was $450. The realty company paid me $10,000 to leave. The fucking lawyer took a third. The realty company now charges $2000/month for an apartment with no […]

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CRACK ISLAND by Peter Nolan Smith

August 8, 2021 – 1:45 am

Crack cocaine swept across the Lower East Side in the summer of 1986. East 11th Street between Avenue B and C on the Lower East Side of New York was the destination of choice for its adherents and hundreds of crack zombies lined the sidewalk before the tenement building on the corner of Avenue B […]

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