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Pinball – Gaslight Inn – Park Slope – 1976

June 10, 2024 – 7:51 pm

At 3 O’Clock I thought about going to Rockaways The day slipped away Seconds ticked into minutes. 4:16 I catch the B54 One stop later I calculated the time. Four hours Back and forth To and from Rockaway The next stop North Portland I get off Across the avenue Fort Greene Park A green lawn […]

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Myrtle and Broadway – Axis of Axis

May 9, 2024 – 9:22 am

Myrtle and Broadway under the elevated J and M trains ranked as the scivviest intersection in Brooklyn. During COVID the triangular corner had been colonized by a cult of Meth heads, K2 fiends, Oxy zombies devoted to a collective intoxication. A ragged woman set up shop selling drugs from her filthy encampment under the subway […]

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COVID Plus 4

April 21, 2024 – 5:35 pm

Four years ago April 21, 2020 No planes In the sky No people On Vanderbilt Avenue Me Alone Same today April 21 2024 Afternoon Cold Gray clouds A pale silver sun Over a bankrupt luxury condo A few people on the sidewalk. Four years ago None Me Out for a walk Alone Today alone Although […]

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Rent-Free Hell 2016

March 31, 2024 – 3:58 am

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and on the C train between Hoyt-Schemmerhorn and Lafayette Street a young man was preaching about the wrath of his lord. “God loves his flock, but hates a sinner. All you sinners will have a special place of torment in Hell.” He glared about the subway car like Josef Mengele, the […]

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Maundy Thursday

March 28, 2024 – 9:49 am

In 1977 I lived in Park Slope with James Spicer. The silver-haired jazz impressario representing several jazz stars only charged me $120 for a room in the spacious townhouse. We drank up the street at the Gaslight Pub. James thrived on the streetwise clientele and I sparred with a Frenchman for pinball supremacy. Michel the […]

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