New York Confession published in Live Nude Poems today. Here's the story behind it.

Former site of Nightingale's

      Very happy to have "New York Confessions" published today in Live Nude Poems. (click link to read it, and continue reading others at the site).  I have Editors Heather Sullivan and Rusty Barnes to thank for that, and grateful for their support.

Here's the story behind this story:

Sometimes we confess things.Sometimes we confess years later. 

Here's my confession. 

Ted Koppel on Nightline 11:30 PM

Pictured above is Manhattan, 2nd and Avenue C. Back in the late 80's I heard Ted Koppel on Nightline reporting about the "new" drug becoming an epidemic in New York City. "It was called crack cocaine," he said. "Easy to find on the streets of New York and was an inexpensive form of the powdered version of the drug cocaine."

 I recognized the street corner in the report on television  and the bar on 2nd and Avenue C, where a deal was going down, which at the time was called Nightingale's. That was all I needed to know. I jumped in my car from Massachusetts and and was on that street corner by 4 AM getting high. 

     The poem, "New York Confession," tell this story but it also tells of the way New York City used to be in in all it's gritty glory, which for good or for bad, has been replaced, ignored, or glossed over today.