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

Friday, April 11, 2025

SIBLINGS

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Me in the arms of my oldest sibling, Tommy, to our right brother Jimmy who we called Buddy, to our left William, who we called by his midd...

Monday, March 17, 2025

HAPPY SAINT PADDY'S

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A trinity of some favorite Irish movies double features popped into my head and here 'tis: BLACK 47 & THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLE...

Saturday, March 8, 2025

NEW POEMS

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Two new poems of mine in Innisfree Poetry Journal 40. Thanks to editor Greg McBride, and to Terence Winch (who's got great poems in t...

Sunday, February 23, 2025

TRANS RIGHTS

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I have had trans friends since childhood, and trans lovers since my late twenties, as well as times when I felt transgender identification...

Thursday, February 20, 2025

ME TOO

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Saturday, February 8, 2025

FOUND ON THE INTERNET

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

TBTRIP

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That's me in the flowery shirt, my three brothers to my right, Tommy (by then a Franciscan friar renamed Campion), Jimmy (known in the f...

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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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