Lally's Alley

just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

AIDS DAY

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i lost a lot of dear close friends as well as ex-lovers to AIDS, and don't know why it missed me, but that's my personal and all of ...

Sunday, November 23, 2025

NOVEMBER SONNET

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On a perfectly clear Fall day, heading back to Fort Monmouth, I watched as other cars on The Garden State Parkway veered onto the shoulder a...

Monday, October 20, 2025

PENELOPE MILFORD R.I.P.

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Penny and I got married on Valentine's Day 1982, about six months after we met. I had gone to see another actor in the play FISHING an...

Thursday, September 11, 2025

BEERRY BERENSON R.I.P. 9/11

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Berry Berenson was a friend to me in my early years in Hollywood. She was married to the movie star Tony Perkins at the time and until his...

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2025

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Poetry of mine in this just released latest "Best" for 2025. Grateful to be included.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

LONI ANDERSON R.I.P.

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My only encounter with Loni Anderson was when I was hired for what turned out to be a single short scene in a TV movie called: My Mother...

Friday, July 18, 2025

THREE DEATHS IN MY LITERARY WORLD

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EDMUND WHITE R.I.P. Ed and I were friends in 1970s NYC. He lived uptown and me downtown, with Miles, my 5-year-old child who I was single-...

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About Me

Lally: MY LIFE 2

When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.

When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.

When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.

When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.

When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.

But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.

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