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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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AUGUST 6, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 6, 2021 – 8:49 pm

4 am in Times Square. Bums, crazies, and the poor camp on the sidewalk. I step over them, as if they were the dead. One wino rises his head and burbles from a flaky rotting mouth, “Gimme some change.” I drop some quarters in his hand. Enough for two cruellers at Disco Donut on East […]

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AUGUST 4, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 4, 2021 – 9:14 am

The Red Sox break out of their slump, taking two games from the Yankees. Jim Rice looks slow, but they are playing in 95F weather. The weather is no better in the East Village. The agust air is exhausted by summer. I’ve only been to the beach once in comparison to my beach bum days […]

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