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NAKED TO THE COLD SEA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 27, 2022 – 8:17 am

In the early 70s We stood on Nauset’s nude beach Hippies not yet punks. A thick ledge of wet seaweed Covered the high tide mark. Off our clothes We lay on the cool green algae Our bare bodies sinking beneath the sludge Comforted by the ocean’s endless bounty Each of us silent Seagulls squatted around […]

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George, Washington 1972

February 21, 2022 – 6:08 pm

Back in late August 1972 my college friend Ptrov Sinski and I hitchhiked west from Seattle. A rancher left us off at exit 149, serving George, Washington, a small farming community surrounded by endless fields of ripening wheat. The two of us ignored the sign forbidding hitchhiking, but within ten minutes a Highway Patrol car […]

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CHICKEN MESSIAHS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2022 – 12:36 pm

Several years ago the media covered a story about rat-infested aGreenwich Village KFC. The stock for Yum Corp, which owns the fast food chain along with Taco Bell, dropped fifty cents on the NYSE with the negative news and I felt bad, because for several years I had been a quality control inspector for KFC […]

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Excerpt From WHEN FAT MEN FLY -CHAPTER 3

January 10, 2022 – 6:03 pm

New Years revelers surged through the 5th Avenue entrance across from the Plaza Hotel. The cops had erected a barricade across the road to Central Park. Nick showed his MD pass. They waved us into the park and we drove to the boathouse. It was quarter to 1971. Eddie got out of the front seat, […]

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JOURNAL ENTRY – DECEMBER 30, 1978 – EAST VILLAGE

January 10, 2022 – 5:40 pm

Dallas trumphed over Atlanta and the Steelers bettered the Brocnos to set up the two teams playing in SuperBowl XIII, as the NFL uses Roman numeral to classy up the most profitable Battle of Brawn of 1979. Alice will return to New York after a long holiday in West Virginia. She telephoned last night with […]

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