Monthly Archives: March 2023

Last Night At The Flamingo by John Iozia 1975

Last Night At The Flamingo (1978) John Ioza There were two thousand queens last night at the Flamingo Before the sun came up they dropped a thousand dollars in drugs on the dance floor. Eighteen superb mixes got sixty thousand oohs and Forty thousand aahs last night at the Flamingo. Two queens got six replays […]

BAD MOTELS – BAD POETRY September 1978

Crossing the country I mostly slept in speeding cars Huddled against the door Hoping the driver wasn’t a murderer. Or that his destination lay beyond the dawn. Sometimes the ride ended nowhere a few hours after midnight. Out in the Nevada desert wthout a motel in sight. I stood on the highway The crunch of […]

Happy World Poetry Day

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet […]

Spring Equinox 2014

Yesterday was the spring equinox, which occurs when the plane of the equator passed the center of the Sun. The day was as long as the night, as the Earth’s axis leans toward the sun. It had been a long winter in northern New York and at one point in the winter International Falls, Minnesota […]

The Drunkest Drunk Ever

I’ve been drinking since the age of 12. My behavior on alcohol has often overstepped the boundary of good behavior and challenged my instinct for survival. I shot a spear gun at two boys attacking my brother in the dunes of Horseneck Beach, drove my car through every red light on Commonwealth Avenue, and puked […]