same ugly faces

[Terrance]

In the early years of this century, dozens of flophouses
(the polite term is 'lodging house') lined the Bowery,
housing an estimated 25,000 men a night. At the time, the
street reigned as the world's most infamous skid row. Jammed
with barber schools and bars, cheap hotels and missions, the
Bowery was a mecca for men with nowhere else to go. Today,
all of the barber schools are gone.

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The Alligator Patrol is Mostly, Mostly bums. Benny is a bum,
a very special bum in this novel. As a discharged sailor in
the 50s, he's got a job hunting alligators and rats, but in
the other Times, dream Time for example,  (Sweet Time's
dream of Af of L and so on, JBF says Ike's sweet time too,
yes I agree,  Depression Times, OLD East Main Time, P
has got a different Tale to tell. 

When I read Chapter 5 I can read it several different ways.
I like M Perez's post on the hunt. 

On the political level P is doing what he does in all his
fiction, he's got the political stories of the day woven in. 

Mississippi, poor guy, lost a women to Osweicim and lost an
eye on the Mikilaj Rej. The great Polish satirist is in fact
also a ship. 
He tried to jump ship in 1949.
The San Diego cops fingerprinted him. 

Now there is a lot of talk about jumping ship and jumping
off buildings here, but this one has to do with American
policy and how the Democrats screwed the Polish Servicemen
(DPs) (Poland too) and how the Republicans took advantage of
this situation. 
Now Mississippi is in NYC, a bum, Mostly these guys are
bums, these volunteers.


Stencil, is looking like a bum,  pied-à-terre (East side,
lower thirties), hasn't shaved, not looking for employment,
but he's got all his parts in the right places, even after
being shot at, but what about those ugly faces, the rogues'
gallery
Collected for Esther?

God knows when but YOU doin it agin better jump downa
manhole