1 Dispatches From The Fringes: An Anthology of Wandering Roy Lisker 8 Liberty Street Middletown, CT 06457
[email protected] www.fermentmagazine.org Table of Contents 1.) Philadelphia, 1961 …………..page 3 2.) Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964 A. Depravity……………….. page 28 B. Noon, Incident and Aftermath …page 48 3.) New York City, 1966 A. Smokey …………………. page 71 B. The One Mile Bar ……….page 80 4.) Paris , 1968 A. Toy Boats ………………………..page 91 B. Hotel Room ………………………page 96 C. Café Crocodile …………………...page 99 D. Despair ……………………………page 104 5.) Dublin, Ireland, 1970 A. The Poet’s Circle ……………..page 117 B. Brendan Casey ……………..page 132 2 6.) Paris, 1971 Transience …………………………page 148 7.) Beaver Falls, PA 1974 ………………page 214 8.) Cambridge, MA, 1980 The Delusion of Juan Rodriguez ……page 238 9.) San Francisco, 1984 A. The Post Hotel ………………………page 246 B. The Red Light District ……………. page 253 10.)Monaco, 1986 Princess Grace to the Rescue …………page 265 11.) Lawrence, Kansas, 1987 The Beat Generation Poetry Festival …. Page 279 12.) Hudson Valley, New York State 1989 ………….page 319 3 1. Philadelphia 1961 Philadelphia, south-east of the downtown center, the weary inner city, torpid with melancholy, conservative, long blocks of charming old residences, a gallery of historic facades masking the panoply of sordid misery. Sad, yet beautiful, not without its aureole of grandeur. Notice that small silver-headed crumpled shape, shabby coat and battered hat, standing in a doorway along 10th Street. And the couples immobilized on the doorsteps along Spruce waiting out the stifling summer evenings. Strange physiognomies will sometimes emerge from alleyways thick with overgrowth.