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Dreams Of Buster Keaton – June 23, 2024

December 4, 2024 – 9:35 am

5:15 am June 23 Awake After a dream of Buster Keaton As Venus de Milo In my bed I look out the window At the June sky Cloudy With patches of blue Forecast of thunderstorms I don’t want my feet to touch the floor I don’t want to be awake I Listen The windows shut […]

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Blackout – Montauk # 37

December 2, 2024 – 3:41 pm

Two hours past sunset Ditch Plains Montauk Walking from a friend’s house Black out Power down Lights out All lights out No man light at all___ The above stars Light the path through the Shagmoor Cold 30 degrees cold No wind Through the trees To the south Below the bluff Waves crashing on the beach___ […]

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WINTER’S TOLL – Montauk

December 1, 2024 – 1:38 am

The rails run straight to Montauk. The pine forest wizened by the salt off the ocean All winter Deer dash across the tracks. Day and night. The train runs twice every hour 7200 seconds apart. Still some deer don’t make it. Crows pick clean the bodies The bones gleam white in the afternoon light. April […]

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Calm Before The Inner Calm

November 6, 2024 – 11:00 am

I’m sitting in front of Larina. Calm under a sky deepening to velvet blue. Velvet not dark Not many people on the street. Not many cars either. Calm Maybe the calm before Kamala___ In my mind the USA has elected a woman A hundred and four years After they got the vote___ A warm autumn […]

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November 2, 1978 East Village – Journal Entry

November 2, 2024 – 1:14 am

At Club 57 on St. Mark’s Lang and I heckled the performers. Several people in the audience took offense. Miss Nancy, the emcee, shrilled, “Get the fuck out of here.” The crowd laughed and I responded saying, “Join the real world or at least the 1930s.” We didn’t leave, but when David Dirtbomb, a comic, […]

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