Category Archives: Life

Lisa Takes A Bath 1978

July 5, 2024 – 4:28 am

My apartment at 256 East 10th Street was a relic of tenement living. There were no electrical outlets in the bedroom. A water closet had a pull chain for the overhead tank. Warped wooden floors spread to crumbling plaster walls traveled by tribes of cockroaches. Girls didn’t like the insects, but they loved the bathtub […]

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Bad Debt Good

May 22, 2024 – 1:17 am

My first credit card was backed by the endorsement of Mrs. Carolina in 1995. “An American Express for emergencies.” The southerner loved the way I kissed and visited me once a month in New York. Ms. Carolina told her husband that I was gay. His believing her mapped out a faultline in my masculinity. Ms. […]

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Lazarus II

May 14, 2024 – 5:03 pm

Two summers ago in the black night of Brooklyn I spewed several liters of blood into the bathroom tub. After wiping the retch from my face More blood surged from my body. Liters’ Something was not right. Something was very wrong. In a taxi I crossed the East River. To NYU Inside the emergency room. […]

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4:20 2021 – 2009

April 20, 2024 – 10:02 am

Today is 4/20, when people celebrate smoking marijuana worldwide, despite the draconian laws against the weed. In total 48 states have legalized marijuana use. The hold-outs come as no surprise. God and pot do not mix. Idaho and Nebraska are the final die-hard anti reefer backwaters. Denying the fact that the States and Federal government […]

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The Speed of Nothing

April 8, 2024 – 11:01 am

An ant on my hand Life or death My choice I choose to do nothing. To often we feel obliged to act When the best course of action is inaction Of course I have upgraded Sloth from the Seven Deadly Sins to a virtue in revenge for astronomers downgrading Pluto from palnet status. I rejoice […]

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