Those days

 I am reading The Very Heart of It - New York Diaries 1983 to ’94. So close to my world.  Close friends dying and all saying the same kinds of crazy things as they slowly leave. Each different words, comments, silliness -  but so so so in the same vein. 

Author Thomas Mallon mentions he met a guy who did a porno movie and told him they had a lot of Joy dish detergent on hand for close up shots. Michael and I made that movie. 

We shared a boyfriend. Not at the same time. Robert Massa, the Village Voice drama critic, died in '94. He called him quiet, steely, handsome when he smiled, hard to figure out. All true. 

He writes - I have that curious, exhilarating sense these days of how all my perceptions are poignantly sharpened, all my feelings strong, excessive even, but somehow beyond sentimentality. I feel fully, complicatedly, dangerously alive.”

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