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, June 10, 2025

GRATEFUL

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couldn't ask for a more insightful understanding of what i intended with this work and the effort that went into creating it: https://...

Saturday, June 7, 2025

THANX

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A BELATED THANX TO ALL WHO SENT ME BIRTHDAY GREETINGS, TRYING TO RESPOND TO EACH INDIVIDUALLY BUT IT MAY TAKE MANY MORE WEEKS OR EVEN MONT...

Thursday, May 22, 2025

ALICE NOTLEY R.I.P.

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Alice and I met at the U of Iowa in 1967, when she was 21 and me 25, not long out of four years in the military and married to Lee, and Alic...

Sunday, May 11, 2025

DOIREANN NI GHRIOFA'S A GHOST IN THE THROAT

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I always said 'poetry saved my life' and what i meant was when i was at my most despondent, reading a poem that I connect with in t...

Saturday, May 3, 2025

ANNIVERSARY

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On May 3rd, 1957, The BROOKLYN Dodgers moved to LA, and I, about to turn 15, stopped caring about major league baseball, which til then I ha...

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...

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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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