him weeks earlier, compression-fractured his knee, he stayed with me nine
months in small room behind door he'd fixed with latch and lock. Old
postcard of Manhattan Island on toliet panel. Ethnomusicological
archivist, film maker, alchemist, he'd designed my new Collected Poems book
cover, now was homeless in New York! June 19, 1988" —Allen Ginsberg
[Photo by Allen Ginsberg]
© and courtesy Allen Ginsberg Trust and Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles