tuesday 6/24


Mom would be 107 today. 



Day began very well. Greeted the lovely young lez with the good haircut and her pooch with the runway saunter.  I say pooch looks happy and her owner says oh, yeah, he’s bustin. I collect shells for my new art attempt … faces … we’ll see. 


Big tall taller hubba hubba dad walks naked to the shorline with his fishing pole and walks right back up my walkway as if he forgot bait or had a bad premonition bout one of this 3 shorties. 


Last nite I went for a sunset beer at Cherrys and felt the sun inside my face. As I snapped the gate latch I ran into lower to the ground younger dad in his speedo and his big silly chest tattoo … Hughie. wow is all I say. still. He’s very dreamy in a bursting with youth kind of way. he’s maybe 27,28. I am careful to calibrate my scans of his body with when he turns his face to one side and looks off. Thats when I drink in his drench. later, back at the bar, watching the boys bounce round on the dock, again, I have a deep sense of cherophobia. I close my eyes and try not to think about it. 


West Village in the Wild Wild West 1970s 


Bars all round 

Pier 45 

Colt models swarmed

Village people sang 

Bankrupt city

Bronx burned

Son of Sam 

Looting riots

Cumo vs Koch

Vote for Cuomo not the Homo


Piers falling into the Hudson 

West side highway collapsed

Boot n Saddles

aka Bras & Girdles

Ex cop submachine gunned the Ramrod

the night after the night I was there


Cavernous warehouses

Bodies fished out of the river

Meatpacking streets

Hooked carcasses

Blood in the streets

Mineshaft

No sign

Lots of don’ts dress code

Jagger and Nureyev turned away


O what days




OMG … I spotted the Cherry Grove Unicorn … 
Mandingo Man … searched for him the past 5 summers … no go. He was entering the big rich house next door and the wife and nanny and baby are there … so apparently - with 5 you get eggroll. 


Just cleaned up my fotos - 33 made the cut. 


I love being/getting closer to my body here. Sun to flesh. The short dad is getting bronzer. Noonday sun bleaches his square shoulders white. His 3 little kids are brilliant on the sand. cartwheeling, jumping, ninja fighting, digging, bouncing, break dancing. O what a beautiful 2025 American family.  



6:21 PM 

I think this is my fav day here.  They did grow better. But today … the ten reasons. 


100 in NYC … Coffee … Art … Food … Beach … 

Book … Swim … Write …Conversation … Music 


and u know what ... I got my history ... and its a good one ... rich ... fucking wonderful


on mom's birthday

 



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