Wednesday, August 13, 2025

le Bains Douches Toujours Seule 1983

A poem from a journal 1983. Ah, Paris.

In 1983 I worked as the physionomiste at the door of Les Bains Douches off the Boulevard Sebastapol in Paris. Extraordinary my being offered the job, but the owners recognized my value to hold the fort a la porte. Many of my New York friends to this day remark that I had been the doorman at Studio 54.

"Only for a month." I had been hired in 1980 by Mark Fleischman, the mythic disco's second owner, who replaced Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who were serving a prison sentence for civil disobediance. I lasted a month and moved onto the notorious, but historic after-hours club the Jefferson Theater on East 14th Street run by the lord of the night Arthur Weinstein.

Another famed establisment of which I was equally as proud of as the Milk Bar and Balajo in Paris/ I was a good life. As the doorman of the Bains I was the most powerful American in Paris after dark. It was quite a responsibilty and I enjoyed all of it. Viva La France.

I Love France

During the 80s I was lucky enough to live in Paris. I worked as a doorman at Les Bains-Douches, la Balajo, and Nouvelle Eve. The French treated me right and I consider my many friends les bonnes amis.

I was lucky enough to make love to several French women.

I am still friends with them. Viv

a La France, especially Francoise Hardy, la plus belle chanteuse des 60s.

A bas l'ancien regime.

February 23 1983 - Paris - Journal

Another night of hard sex with Mary Cheape, an Irish waitress at the Studio, the Mexican restaurant of Rue de Temple. Having the night off from my new doorman job at the Bains-Douches, I had gone to the restaurant at midnight. I waited for her to finish her shift, getting a few drinks from Tony Bowers, a Lower Alabama guitarist. Mary had a glass of wine, then we walked over to the rousette's apartment on Rue du Vielle Temple.

"My clothes smell of food I hate it. I hate working in restaurants."

"All I smell is Paris." Traffic this late at night was non-existant in the Marais. A single Peugot taxi. Its sound a diesel engine. 505. I draw her hair from the nape of her neck. A sniff of her flesh. Burritos.

"I smell you."

"You've been drinking."

"Not that much." My cock is already erect.

Inside her apartment she strips to skin, unembarrassed by the soiled underwear on the floor.

"I always feel so dirty."

I lean over to cuff her breast and sniff her skin. She smells of glow and food and desire. The only light from the street lamps below. In these shadows she's attractive, but that impression shifts with every movement closer to me. Long red hair creates a veil across her face with green eyes emerald headlights. Mary an Hibernian chameleon shape-shifting seductive Banshee. I've always liked women, who never look the same. Her fingers undo my zipper and her hands pull down my jeans. She palms my penis and seizes it strongly, as if to test its hardness. I kick off the Levis and pull off my shirt. I am not wearing underwer. We are naked and we fuck each other senseless on her bed.

She takes me into her flesh our pelvis bones crash together in lust.

Pushing our bodies to the limit. She orgasms twice and I finally feel the urge to come.

"Don't come in me. I don't't use birth control, but I don't like the feel of condoms. I like to feel of bare cock in me."

I thrust hard and withdraw unable to restrain the urge to finish. My sperm splatters in ropes over her belly and melts like pearls on her belly. Her long red pubic hair wet with her own juices. I don't mind coitus interruptus with her. Coming on her breasts her ass her face. She likes it too. A wicked Irish girl.

Lying atop I get hard after a few minutes and fuck her again. Afterwards I fucked her a third time. She wanted more, but my foreskin had been worn paper-thin and my pelvis bone was bruised black and blue from the ramming her vagina. She seemed no worse for the wear.

Mary draws me close to her and turns on her side. Her lungs panting for air. I feel very small of her back. Her her ass grinds into my pelvis . There's no mistaking what she wants. Until I met her, I hadn't had any sex since leaving Hamburg and I think of the time before with Stephanie. Thinking later then that was the last sex I'll ever have. I was wrong and I entered Mary for a last time.

Funny many of my friends have succumbed to sexual hibernation during the last months; Julie safe a virgin again, Philippe and Rafael are too stoned on heroin to fuck. So many others in this nightlife high on heroin in Paris. I had no one and no one had me. Then last week Marie France, the blonde sex goddess singer, took me home. She's a beautiful Marilyn Monroe transsexual. She hide her penis skillfully and we had sex three times in the night. I hope to get her another time, but she never looks my way at the Privilege under Le Palais disco.

Slow times. Then I met Mary. My libido intact and thighs open to accept me. Tomorrow I'll go to Notre Dame Cathedral and light a few candles to Black Michael over the organ. He's not Satan, but he is sexy. Then it's praying to Holy Mary, the blesssed virgin to help my cock find a home. "

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Jim Lovell Into The Cosmos

Yesterday US astronaut and a long long time Explorers Club member Jim Lovell completed his mission on the planet Earth and Space.

“I realized it really was a triumph in the way people handled a crisis: Good leadership at all levels at NASA, the use of imagination and initiative to figure out how to get us home by using just what we had on board, the perseverance of people who kept on going when it looked like initially that we didn’t have a chance.… This is why Apollo 13 went from being a failure to a triumph.”

Le Hotel Louisiane 1985

The corner third-floor room of the Hotel Louisiane on Rue de Seine in St. Germain 1985. Maybe room 204.

During the early 1980s I had lived all over Paris with accommodating amis amies et amants, while working les portes or doors at nightclubs such as  le Rex, Bains Douches, Balajo, Royal Lieu et Nouvelle Eve as le physionomiste or doorman. Sometimes a videur or bouncer.  For a change it was good to live alone at hotels; le Ecouffes in le Marais, le Nelle, et le Louisiane in St. Germain. 160 francs per night. $20 with a petite dejeuner.

Not a quiet street. Le marche on Rue de Seine opened early. Shouts of the grocers.

Returning from the clubs at dawn I took advantage of its hours by lowering a weaved pannier by rope to the fruit seller with a 100-franc notes, a list of desires; clementines, baguette, fromage, et une cafe creme from the corner bistro et the Herald Tribune for basically $3. The phone rarely rang. Friends visited unannounced. I read away the days. Books from Shakespeare and Company on the Seine. Walking the back streets to le Cafe Flore. A glass of Sancerre in the late afternoon watching Paris become the fabled City of Light or le Ville de Lumierie.

 Oh, for the simple life.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Four Gay Men

Four gay men
On their way
To Fire Island
On the 7:21 to Babylon
Slim fit young queer
Laughing ready for a good time
Off at Patchogue
Ferry to the Pines
To a room
Or hotel
Lunch beach a swim some sun
Saturday night fever at the Monster
Johnny Dynell
On the turntables
Hundreds of near naked men
Jock straps and sneakers
Nothing more
Other than the sheen of sweat
Thumping bass
Humping hips
Bumping baskets
Poppers
Oh poppers
Take them higher
Sodom on the beat
The Sexual Revolution lives__
But not yet
Still
Four gay men on the 7:21 to Babylon___