poetandknowit19 Aug 2002

I read his book, "What Did I Do?" last summer. Quite a fascinating sort. Another of the famous beats, although older, turned me onto him over breakfast at Nichol's one morning. I wont mention names out of respect for the dead. But HE lived in Kansas on a farm with about a billion cats. Anyway, I used to have breakfast with him from time to time. He was a man who liked his eggs over easy and his coffee full of cram and sugar and a dab of salt. I also one lived next door to the apartment where Nick Cassidy and Allen Ginsberg shacked up with Cassidy's wife for a summer. You could almost here the ghosts of the typewriter pounding away at night. So yes, all we spics have something to tell. I did not know of Larry Rivers passing. I quit reading obits in the NY Times when I turned 30. Have a good day, dear sir.