“Peter Orlovsky born 1933 visiting his family—Lafcadio age 47 who’d lived with us San Francisco-N.Y 1955-61 & later intermittent years; Katherine Orlovsky age 78 totally deaf after botched mastoid/nerve operation Eye Ear Hospital N.Y. circa 1930’s; Laff’s twin sister Marie who’d lived in our Lower East Side apartment 1959 for Baby Nurse School in Jersey but quit jobs soon after, angry hearing voices filthy gossip. Second floor flat on lonely road Long Island, they need taxi to supermarket shop faraway with Social Service Indemnity checks, July 26, 1987.”