Forties Without these two people I would not have been born. Where are they now ? My father is dead. Saw himself as a cowboy. Wrote a few songs I later threw away. Loved Hank Williams. Smashed a lot of his original 78s against the basement wall. He was a drunk. He worked in the slaughterhouses. Loved animals. Had to kill them to make a living. Dead at 56. My mother is 81 and lives alone.
	Late Fifties I was born into a Catholic family. That’s me at my holy communion. I received a plastic bag of rubber soldiers as a gift.
	1959-1968 That is not a house but a wooden shack. Somebody brought it on a truck and planted it down in the middle of nowhere. Hunter’s Point. Dead end street. So called Ghetto. World War 2 housing projects overlooking our front yard. My mother kept a garden. The shack is still there.
	That’s my father and me sitting on the front steps of the house with one of his dogs.
	1981 The guy you see holding the turkey and the trophy of Elvis is me in the film Hero from Alexandre Rockwell. I play a cowboy. You can’t see it but behind me is a New York City Checker Cab. Alex would ship it to Europe in 1982 and we would drive it to the Berlin Film Festival with the meter running. Alex and I would make two feature films together.The other was Lenz based upon the Georg Büchner Novella. Read what the critics said.
	1992 That’s a photograph of my mother and I taken at an exhibition "MY NAME IS HUNTER'S POINT" at Cameraworks in San Franciscothat the photographer Susan Schwartzenberg and I developed together. Susan did all the work putting up the show since I was in Berlin or in Moscow or somewhere else. I did make it back for the show
	That’s me standing in front of my poem MY NAME IS HUNTER’S POINT, sucking on a red stick of licorice from the candy factory where my mother worked.
	1992 I am standing at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco performing poetry in front of the paintings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
	1998 The guy I am sitting with is the Russian poet Dimitri Prigov. It’s a performance of poetry at literatur WERKstatt in Berlin. Berlin is where I live some of the time for the past 15 years.
	The man at the top of those steps is Lenin. I took this picture in Moscow in 1993.
	2000 Here I am in prison in Berlin. A scene from short story of Wolfgang Borchert directed by Mischa Blume. You are probably wondering what I am doing in Germany all these years. I don’t know.
	2002 That is me proudly standing with the Dancer and Choreographer Tony Rizzi and one of my favorite actresses Els Deceukelier for the production of Judy Was Angry in Frankfurt