4/5 Train, 86th Street to Borough Hall, October 20th, 2014

What luck to sit caddy-corner to Tina B., fascinating singer/songwriter, male actress and self-described drag queen. I followed him off the train well before my station. “I’m writing a memoir about being raised in my Aunt’s brothel above a Wise Potato chip factory in Pittsburgh in the 1950’s.” Pre-order now! The book and movie will be called Putting Pink Icing On a Tall Cake. As he described it, the birthday cake got taller each year, symbolizing the suffering of his Irish/Albanian mother, a dress model, at the hands of his father, a member of the Irish Mafia.
I’d like to see Tina on stage. What a nice person.

My feet R killing me
But the play must be
         writ
I don’t even have
to take a
         ….

Read a poem by Sheila B.

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