Monthly Archives: January 2025

On The Hurricane Deck

January 31, 2025 – 12:16 pm

On the hurricane deck Of the Spirit of America Staten Island ferry Departing St. George’s Bright sun on the Inner Harbor____ I’ve taken this ferry Hundreds of time Mostly to see a good friend Dr. Nepola We go back to 1970 I left him in Berkeley Telegraph Avenue 1973 Got a ride in a Ford […]

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The Harsimus Branch Embankment – Jersey City

January 31, 2025 – 12:15 pm

Last Wednesday I left Clinton Hill to act the role of a drunken pool player in low-budget film. LATE FAME. A movie from a 1894 novella about a forgotten poet discovered by the young. My friend was the lead. “This movie is about you.” Famous for never. One scene was all I got. Losing at […]

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The Evil Of The Church

January 31, 2025 – 12:07 pm

In the early 1970s I drove taxi in Boston. Occasionally I received dispatched calls and picked up young girls in a family way. Our destination the diocesan home for wayward girls in Dorchester. These young girls sent to the nuns to be treated as Mary Magdalene, who was never portrayed as a loose woman in […]

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Moneyless Americans

January 31, 2025 – 11:16 am

Americans don’t have money. They have credit card debt. – James Steele – Fugitive Americans are $1.8 trillion dollars in debt to banks. If there are lucky. The average credit card interest rate in America is 24.26% after the fourth straight monthly decrease in the wake of recent Federal Reserve rate cuts. Mostly spend on […]

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Staten Island Fog – Journal May 9, 1978

January 31, 2025 – 1:25 am

From May 9, 1978 Journal On the Staten Island Ferry The first time I’ve left Manhattan Since going to Boston On Christmas___ 11 AM I can’t see anything of Manhattan The fog furls over the ferry’s wake Across the Inner Harbor The rank smell of the sea Beyond the Verrazano Bridge. The gray water darker […]

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