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Junkie

February 22, 2024 – 9:11 pm

Back in the 1980s on several occasions I espyed Burrough’s walking corpse crossing Grand Central, his unpolished shoes slithering over the marble floor with an effortless gait. No hello. We knew not each other. I sometimes a drunk. He high and listlessly heading to score dope, his once elegant suit hanging off a scarecrow frame, […]

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The Second Coming Of Rockets Redglare

May 27, 2020 – 9:43 am

Rockets Redglare was a native New Yorker. His family was tough. He was born addicted to heroin. His childhood was no fairy tale and Rockets moved to the East Village to escape his past. He couldn’t outrun heroin and his habit became the thing of legends on the Punk Scene. Rockets could score anywhere and […]

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The Truth About Whores

January 6, 2013 – 6:44 pm

“Beware of whores that don’t want money. The Hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money.” William Burroughs. Several years ago I had occasion to visit the Elk Gallery on Crosby Street. Jocko Weyland was curating a photography exhibition of lurid bloody vistas of wild Italian youth. Punk, guns, and drugs […]

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