Tuesday 22 September 2009

Tom Pickard and friends

Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg and Tom Pickard outside 437 East 12th Street, New York, 1981

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  1. Was Allen working for the railways in 1981?

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  2. Jimmy H was supplying bootlet railway gear in exchange for poems. He has the largest collection of unpublished Ginsberg in the world, but he won't let anyone have access. Bit of a hoarder.

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  3. How apt that those three mountebanks are fighting for space with garbage cans.

    (I do believe that the 3rd can from the left had a slim book of verse out at the time, called I think " The Waste Bin" )

    I saw Ginsberg and Orlovsky perform at the University Theatre in the late 60's.....a slow night.....everyone checking their watches.....hoping for a fire.

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  4. My mistake.....it was the FOURTH can from the left.

    The one wearing his lid at a jaunty angle.

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